Random Gaming Talk

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The souped up $999 barely beats the $450 Switch 2 at times the IQ is worse 
 


It's kind of insane how efficient and well crafted the Switch 2 is and how much better DLSS is over FSR. 
The thumbnail is the restart, 18s on Switch 2, 1 minute on ROG Xbox Ally X

8nm Samsung node + Nvidia engineering goes toe to toe with the AMD Ryzen™ Z1 Extreme processor on 4nm. 
Sure the Switch 2 battery runs out quicker but it's 4x smaller. 

Xbox as a skin for Windows. Excel on your Xbox. This is truely what the original Xbox team warned Microsoft about.

Unless I missed something, that video appears to be running the Xbox Ally X on battery power and doesn't list the wattage, nor does it show how much vram has been allocated.  DLSS on Switch 2 is impressive but there's no way it's touching the Ally at 30w/8gb vram from a performance standpoint.  Edit: the performance section has some of the settings listed but still doesn't note what the vram is.  I don't know what the Ally X settings are stock  but some of these devices ship with it set too low.

For the record I wouldn't buy an Xbox Ally X and would tell someone to get a Switch 2 or Steam Deck OLED- we should be getting significantly more powerful apus in these handhelds within the next year or two. The GPD Win 5 is going to use Strix Halo which will shit all over everything else, but it's also going to cost a lot more and GPD's QC and customer service are awful. OneX are also putting out a handheld with the same level of power, but they suck too.