OneXfly Apex handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Halo is on the way

One Netbook is preparing to give GPD some competition in the premium, high-performance handheld gaming PC market.

A day after GPD launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first handheld powered by an AMD Strix Halo processor with discrete-class graphics, One Netbook has begun promoting an upcoming Strix Halo handheld called the OneXfly Apex.

While we still don't have full details about the specification, price, or ship date, we do know that the OneXfly Apex will have an 8 inch, 120 Hz display with variable refresh rate support and native landscape orientation., a mini SSD port for removable, high-speed storage cards, stereo speakers tuned by Harman Audio, and game controllers with RGB backlit analog joysticks and adjustable multi-stage triggers.

The handheld supports up to an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with a 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5 CPU and Radeon 8060S integrated graphics featuring 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units for the kind of performance you'd normall y get from a discrete GPU.

Interestingly, while the GPD Win 5 has the same processor, GPD caps its power level at 75 watts, while One Netbook says that chip in the OneXfly Apex will be able to go up to 120 watts, thanks in part to an integrated liquid cooling system.

What impact that will have on battery life remains to be seen though. Speaking of batteries, like the GPD Win 5, the OneXfly Apex does not have one built into the body of the handheld itself. Instead it will rely on an external 85 Wh battery pack, which both frees up some space in the handheld for heat dissipation, and makes it possible to buy a couple of batteries and swap them out as needed to keep gaming without stopping to plug the handheld into a power source.

This isn't the first Strix Halo device One Netbook has announced: this summer the company unveiled a 14 inch tablet called the ONEXPLAYER Super X. But the OneXfly Apex should be a much smaller device that's easier to hold in your hands while gaming.

One thing that both the ONEXPLAYER Super X and OneXfly Apex will almost certainly have in common with every other AMD Strix Hal-powered computer to date? They'll be expensive, with prices likely starting around $1500 or possibly higher.

via One Netbook (YouTube) and One Netbook Official Discord

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