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GPD G1: The branded outdoor docking station, featuring Radeon RX 7600M XT mobile graphics

GPD has released the G1 external dock with a Radeon RX 7600M XT mobile graphics card for the 2023 Win Max 2 compact gaming laptop. It connects to the laptop via a proprietary OcuLink connector that provides up to 63 Gbps of bandwidth. band. It can be connected to external graphics cards that support the corresponding connector or external M.2 drives.

The GPD claims that the performance of the Radeon RX 7600M XT external graphics card is superior to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 mobile graphics card. The graphics accelerator uses the Navi 33 GPU on RDNA 3 architecture, operating at 2615 MHz. It has 32 executive units (2048 stream processors) and 32 MB of Infinity Cache. The board has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with 128-bit bus support. The board's power consumption can be dynamically adjusted from 75 to 120 watts. In terms of performance, the GPD G1 is comparable to the GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q model.

The new product also features an HDMI connector, two DisplayPorts, three USB 3.2 (5 Gbps), an SD card reader, as well as its own 240 W GaN power supply and active cooling system. The docking station measures 225 × 111 × 29.8 mm and weighs 0.92 kg.

The manufacturer provided benchmark results for the G1, comparing it to the desktop GeForce RTX 4070 and the mobile GeForce RTX 3070. The external Radeon RX 7600M XT provided a doubly high level of performance in games and synthetic benchmarks.

The most controversial aspect of the GPD G1 is its price. The company will launch the new product through crowdfunding. For those backing the project, the cost of the docking station will be $650 USD. For average buyers, it will cost $810 USD. desktop, which offer a much higher level of performance. Although the recommended retail price for the Radeon RX 7900 XT model is US$849, the graphics card can easily be found for US$800. The GeForce RTX 4070, on the other hand, starts at US$599.

The 2023 Win Max 2 mini gaming notebook will be offered for $799 to $1,842 in crowdfunding and $892 to $2,172 to regular buyers. The price also depends on whether a docking station with an external graphics card is included in the package. The device is based on Ryzen 7000U series processors, 16 to 64 GB of RAM and a 1 or 2 TB SSD.

Source: mundophone