Monday, April 20th 2020
GDP Win Max is an 8-inch Gaming Laptop with Intel's Ice Lake CPU
GDP, a company specializing in the creation of tiny laptops designed for gaming, has just announced the latest addition to its family of tiny notebooks - the GDP Win Max gaming laptop. This model is an 8-inch gaming laptop packing a lot for its size. On the outside, this laptop is equipped with joysticks on both sides, so there is even an option to directly play games using these joysticks instead of the built-in keyboard. The display of the device is an IPS screen that features a 1280×800 resolution, resulting in a 16:10 aspect ratio of the display. What's more important, however, is what is under the hood of the small body.
It is powered by Intel's latest Ice Lake CPU - the Intel Core i5-1035G7. Being a 4 core/ 8 threaded CPU with Gen11 Iris Plus 940 graphics it is accompanied by 16 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 512 GB SSD. GDP has provided some of the benchmark results of this configuration which you can check out below, however, please take these with a grain of salt. As far as I/O goes, this small laptop is rather well equipped with plenty of ports. There is one Thunderbolt 3 port to connect to external GPU is it is needed. There is one USB Type-C 3.1 Gen2 port and two USB Type-A 3.1 Gen1 ports for the connection of external peripherals. If you wish to connect the laptop to the outside screen, there are options of HDMI, USB Type-C or Thunderbolt 3 ports for connection. A welcome addition to I/O is the inclusion of the RJ45 connector, meaning that if you have access to ethernet you can easily plug it into this laptop.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
It is powered by Intel's latest Ice Lake CPU - the Intel Core i5-1035G7. Being a 4 core/ 8 threaded CPU with Gen11 Iris Plus 940 graphics it is accompanied by 16 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 512 GB SSD. GDP has provided some of the benchmark results of this configuration which you can check out below, however, please take these with a grain of salt. As far as I/O goes, this small laptop is rather well equipped with plenty of ports. There is one Thunderbolt 3 port to connect to external GPU is it is needed. There is one USB Type-C 3.1 Gen2 port and two USB Type-A 3.1 Gen1 ports for the connection of external peripherals. If you wish to connect the laptop to the outside screen, there are options of HDMI, USB Type-C or Thunderbolt 3 ports for connection. A welcome addition to I/O is the inclusion of the RJ45 connector, meaning that if you have access to ethernet you can easily plug it into this laptop.
24 Comments on GDP Win Max is an 8-inch Gaming Laptop with Intel's Ice Lake CPU
Take note that it hits 162 FPS because its 1280x800.
The expected price is CNY 10,000, so around $1,400 USD. Nowhere near a good deal, but you are paying for the form factor.
If you want to use a Ryzen chip, get AMD first to put beefier Vega configs into their midrange U mobility chips
And you second part about bigger iGPU, bigger or smaller iGPU OEM like to put useless dGPU any away. See this : www.techpowerup.com/265989/asus-readies-zenbook-14-model-combining-ryzen-4000-and-geforce-mx350-graphics
The iGPU config in that Intel CPU already beats what a 3700U can do by 10-20%. At 15W config, those ICL-U chips are creeping into MX150 territory.
Putting a geforce next to it has nothing to do with this topic, we're talking about an ultra compact device that uses exactly 1 silicon part for both tasks.
For that, i'll say it again, if people are begging for a midrange AMD chip in those GDP devices, they will first have to ask AMD nicely to beef up their iGPU configuration to be more gaming-friendly. Maybe create some special SKU parts with a 4c8t config that uses the fullest possible vega iGPU
Those gaming oriented APUs never took off, I don't see why this changes now, tbh. Still, its pretty smart for them to lower that resolution to pretty much 720p, because at least then it looks like something and its not the most horrible res for this form factor.
If ppsspp can run GoW 100% then its a winner or something.
Last time AMD APUs made sense, gaming requirements were still rising quickly because of regular resolution bumps and maturing 3D rendering.
But today a laptop with 1050Ti (or even 1050) really lets you have a lot of fun - even in fairly modern games.
If you're OK with 1080p at 40-50fps and can live without RTRT, then 2019 was probably the last year you had to buy a dGPU.
If you want 4K or 144Hz, you'll have to keep spending a lot on graphics cards, but even that will be covered by fairly simple chips at some point.
You say 'now they do'... and then came RT... :) The reality isn't really changing... you're always relegated to playing yesteryears stuff at low res and low settings. That wasn't any different when GTA V ran with decent FPS on an A10.
If APUs are really supposed to catch on, they will have to compete with budget discrete... there needs to be an economical advantage, because just the form factor is not enough. We have smartphones for that already, and they already run simple stuff at low settings, pretty much. The real gamer's games are not played by the demographic that doesn't want a gaming PC or laptop.
For a fun history tour: look at the resolutions TPU used in reviews between 2005 and 2016.
And in 2016 we got to the 1080p, 1440p and 2160p that hasn't changed since and probably will stay with us for quite some time.
But it really stopped at 1080p. And even if there are higher resolution and they add some image quality, you don't feel handicapped by 1080p. It provides enough details.
In the past, when your GPU couldn't handle 1080p and you had to go for 720p or lower, granularity did take away some of the fun.
1080p is really enough for casual gaming. Just like it's enough for typical casual/business laptop - at least until Microsoft somehow regulates scaling (i.e. forces developers to use a proper API). Absolutely not for casual gamers. For enthusiasts, who feel the need for more pixels and more fps than the average Joe - sure. There will always be some target that will make them spend $500 or $1000 on a graphics card.
For most people the resolution race stops now. That's why we're getting RTRT and it gets so much advertising. Otherwise most people would just stop buying expensive gear. Sure, RTRT becomes the new sales driver (I guess VR will get more traction as well). This will last as long as games don't look like decent CGI movies.
But not every game really benefits from RTRT. More importantly, many gamers will need a lot of time to, nomen omen, see the light. ;)
And many of us quickly fell in love with RTRT, but can't afford the cost or size of the cards we have.
So, at least for me, it's probably IGP gaming until 2022-2023, when I hope to buy a slim laptop with RTX2080-ish performance. If I didn't like RTRT, I'd buy a 1660 today and call it
a daya decade. :)Definitely an interesting product, but it has to be closer to $500 to be anything but a niche product.
It remains to be seen if these things really catch on for gaming or just because they're on a IT dpt purchase list that has trouble spelling anything other than Intel.
pcper.com/2019/09/ice-lake-benchmarks-1065g7-vs-3700u/ thin ICL vs thick 3700u benchmarks
Of course that beating RX Vega 10 isn't always the case with ICL G7 level graphics, but it shows how capable it is in its form factor.
Having an i5 variant with this G7 level is exactly what i was talking about, and i wish something like the 4500U had a brother that had a full Vega core so we could even theorycraft such device using it
Ice Lake GPUs is pretty much similar to current UHD graphics except that this is on steroids (spammed with more EUs), so I am not expecting it to be faster than Vega. Its the Xe graphic in Tiger Lake that will give Intel a much needed upgrade.
With the new Renoir chips, memory support has gone up to DDR4 3200 and LPDDR4X 4266, and proven that even with 2 less CUs, it is still significantly faster than the older Vega 10.
Anandtech's Surface 3 review with 15W gives different picture. The reason AMD is not making big APU is : If AMD made one, the OEM will not forget to pair with MX150, which will nullify the perpose of big APU.