- A new video on YouTube shows a DIY pocket game pc using a NVIDIA RTX 4090 Gaming Gaming Gaming GUP
- It has a 4K 60Hz, 64 GB of RAM and 4 TB screen of storage space
- It is a sign that portable play PCs could be more powerful than current traditional models
The GPUs of the NVIDIA RTX 5000 series remain under the spotlight after their launch in January, with super models that should arrive later this year. However, the laptop GPUs of the previous generation were used unexpectedly – and it highlights the possibility of more powerful portable games.
As indicated by Notebookcheck, Nittrx presented a portable DIY game PC on YouTube, running several 4K triple-A games on high parameters, using a RTX 4090 laptop GPU. Yes, you have read-and it works alongside Core i9 14900HX of Intel, a powerful 24 core processor and 32-thread.
Now, this can instantly lift some red flags concerning thermal, the battery life and energy consumption, but as the screenshot below, there is adequate cooling; The Temperature of the Laptop GPU RTX 4090 remains mainly at 162F / 72C, while the CPU fluctuates between 151F and 158F, or 66c and 70c.
After having tested a decent number of portable PCs from MSI, Lenovo and Asus, I can say that the thermal performance of this DIY pocket computer are very similar to those of traditional devices. This is everything that houses 4 TB of storage via two SSDs of 2 TB and 64 GB of RAM via two 32 GB sticks – which should all contribute to higher temperatures, but these temperatures are far from being considered excessive.
It should also be noted that this pocket computer uses a 12.5 -inch 4K 60Hz Dell screen (in particular the Sharp LQ125D1), but the image frequencies reaching triple numbers in play tests really show what the RTX 4090 laptop GPU is capable. Great performance can be done on current pocket computers using AMD Apus and Intel Soc, but it may be the best portable game PC that you will see for a while.
This shows that it is no longer a question of whether a 4K portable game is possible or not. It is now a question of knowing whether the manufacturers of portable games are ready to make the jump and design more powerful portable game PCs, which would probably target a niche audience, depending on the price.
Analysis: these are laptops that should have premium prices, not the new extreme models AMD Ryzen Z2
I was quite expressed on my frustration with portable games and suddenly peak of their prices, without much performance on previous equipment to justify it. We see this happening with the new CLAW A8 MSI growing almost $ 1,000, despite the first markers suggesting a minimum performance increase of 10% in games using the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor from AMD, compared to the extreme Ryzen Z1.
The only pocket computers with potential high price labels that can be justified are the Ayaneo Flip 1S DS, which uses the powerful Ryzen AI HX 370 processor of AMD AMD; The Lenovo Legion goes 2, mainly due to the addition of an OLED screen; And of course, this custom RTX 4090 laptop.
Unfortunately, I do not see any of the dominant portable game manufacturers who get ideas for this DIY configuration. The production of such devices would require many sustainability tests, and pocket computers would result in essentially rivaling with larger -scale gaming computers.
A 12.5 inch screen is also undesirable, which I previously declared concerning the Acer Nitro Blaze 11 – and I always hold this opinion on this DIY device, although it is much more tolerable given the equipment and the resolution available.
I would love to see a device like this being reproduced by a general public manufacturer – and if there is something that we should withdraw from this DIY project, it is that 4K portable games are not impossible after all.
