The external Handheld gaming battery is not as stupid as you think

While we are waiting for the Rog Xbox ally and the next generation of slightly more powerful play pocket computers to hit the scene, I am stuck to think about where portable games could go if designers had a little stranger. The Chinese company GPD, known for having offered portable computers outside the Kilt who overlap a lifestyle of business and player, has a laptop which is in equal parts seductive and ridiculous. It is the battery, of all things, which makes the device stand out, literally.

The GPD Win 5 Handheld PC has a striking resemblance to the portable PlayStation. Compared to the T-Mobile Type Type T-Mobile keyboard of Win 4, the “functionality” outside the Win 5 competition is its external battery. Yes, you heard. The battery of the device is one of the largest we have seen on a pocket computer – quite as large as the 7 -inch screen. The battery can be fixed at the rear of the device, or you can play with the electric unit outside and wired. Do you want something even stranger? Victory 5 has a tray like a SIM card location which houses an SSD for easily swappable storage.

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During its window at Chinajoy Tech Conference in Shanghai, China, GPD said that its device can reach graphic capacities equal to that of an Nvidia GeForce 4060 graphics card, although we have not yet in hand to test this hypothesis. The massive battery itself has a capacity of 5,170 mAh and is evaluated for 80Wh. GPD also makes a pocket computer station that uses the lower USB-C connection. You can connect the battery to the platform, then connect a monitor for a complete desktop experience.

Beyond that, resembling a Play-Up Play-Up PlayStation Portable, the GPD Win 5 takes the price like the most bizarre that I have seen recently, and this includes devices designed to look like a Nintendo DS and even the device with a double-screen ONEXUGAR Sugar 1 device with folding arms. With 32 GB of RAM, the Win 5 is supposed to feed on a Ryzen AI Max + 395 AMD chip, which has proven to be an extremely powerful or accelerated apu processing unit – for graphically intensive tasks such as the game. You can find similar chips on larger games like the high -end Asus Rog Flow Z13 or in small PCs. On a pocket computer, the Ryzen Ai Max, it’s like putting a rocket engine in the child’s cardboard spacecraft.

People online quickly ridiculed the high -end apu and the need for a separate battery. After all, how can you call a portable device if you also need to luggal an additional battery? In a post to X, GPD said that the device has a draw of 70 W or more, which is more than 40 W that most modern pocket computers cannot manage. The company said that “an internal battery would not be enough alone”. The company essentially says to users that if they want level performance close to their laptop, they first need a new battery solution.

Here is an answer to some of the subjects that everyone addressed concerning the Win5:

Win5 design philosophy
The Win5 is a portable bar in -way bar designed with maximum performance in mind. Its shape factor is similar to traditional pocket computers such as the steam bridge and …

– GPD game consoles (@Softwincn) August 6, 2025

If there is a main obstacle to mobile devices, it is the battery. High power XR headsets like Apple Vision Pro oblige users to slide a wired battery in their pocket during use. We expect the next Samsung Moohan Android XR project to have similar battery limitations. These devices require high -end fleas to process high resolution images, which means that they need larger batteries to use higher TDP or thermal design power. If these batteries were housed on the helmets, they would be much heavier than they are already.

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Pocket computers normally operate on lower resolutions than your typical range PC, and users who want to play for more than two hours must run them at lower wattages anyway. It doesn’t also matter when you pay $ 550 for an OLED steam bridge. The graphic performance limited on a pocket computer like the Asus Rog Ally X can sometimes be grated when you count more than $ 1,000 for this. The GPD Win 5 will not be the most mobile of any pocket computer, but it is better to consider it as something closer to a laptop of play, just with integrated game game controls. The platform may be even more necessary to use the pocket computer as a kind of Plug-And-Play game console. It is a device first in performance, and all potential buyers must treat it as such. We still do not know how much it will cost, but we can assume that it will not be cheap when it arrives on the market on an unknown date in the future.