Quote from: NothingNewNerd on August 28, 2024, 20:12:35The Lunar Lake iGPU should be slightly slower than the 890m, but thanks to intel's new power management system in lunar lake, it should be more efficient, and reliable. It would be great to see this in a handheld. If intel can nail down the drivers, Battlemage will likely be a better choice than the 890m.     

Tbh with you. I feel like all the handhelds are kinda DOA. Just too many issues. Windows in general (impossible to use the UI without physical keyboard). Even if you run a Linux based distro (steamOS, etc), it still doesn't change the fact that there's very little optimization done and PC games are huge. Because there's so little optimization being done you've stuff like steam deck already being relegated as ancient and underpowered despite being barely 2 years old. Ever increasing game file sizes means, it wont be too long until we need 8TB SSDs for games. Which is kinda ridiculous as it will push the cost of handhelds to laptop territory. I would say consoles are the way to go (upcoming switch 2 / playstation-xbox handheld) except for the fact that companies seem to be dragging their feet when it comes to releasing new portable hardware. At this rate won't be surprised if we don't see a handheld made by the big 3 until 2028.

Much rather just pay 2x-3x the price of a handheld for something that won't get outdated until 4 years atleast. Especially when strix halo laptops are just around the corner and will be launching in few months it seems.

Both a370m and 890m are incredibly weak and don't impress me at all. So not too interested in any devices either are in.

The efficiency of some of these 890m laptop does impress me tho. It makes me wonder just what will happen when someone gets a 40CU stx-h laptop and then brings the GPU clocks very low. We could be looking at incredible gains with decent battery too. Again won't be cheap but I rather choose this then buying new handheld pc every 6 months to avoid serious stutterfest.

The Lunar Lake Arc 140 is pretty close to the arc a370m in this Geekbench result, the arc a370m is on par with the 890m, both score 4,400 timespy. The Lunar Lake iGPU should be slightly slower than the 890m, but thanks to intel's new power management system in lunar lake, it should be more efficient, and reliable. It would be great to see this in a handheld. If intel can nail down the drivers, Battlemage will likely be a better choice than the 890m.     

AMD... Laugh in 890M and Strix Halo.

Getting an on par result from a future chip against current chip which is priced less and boasting about it?

This is just marketing for the stupid. Which is probably what's left of intel's customer base after the 13th and 14th gen  instability issues.

So Intel claim that they have 3-generations behind AMDs GPU, and show it as achievement.