Handheld manufacturers already look interested in Panther Lake for their gaming devices, and the first one is OneXPlayer.
OneXPlayer X1 Gaming Handheld With Intel Core Ultra 5 338H Spotted on Geekbench; Handheld to Boast 32 GB Memory
A plethora of benchmarks for Intel Panther Lake chips have leaked over the past weeks, and we have seen their iGPUs perform competitively or even better than RDNDA 3.5-based iGPUs on AMD Strix Point. While it took quite some time for handheld manufacturers to start adopting the Strix Point chips in their handhelds, Panther Lake-based handhelds should be available as soon as the Panther Lake chips start to appear in notebooks.
Chinese handheld and eGPU manufacturer, OneXPlayer, which usually brings the latest and fastest mobile chips in their handhelds, is reportedly the first one to bring one of the budget Panther Lake APUs to its handheld arsenal. As spotted by @Olrak29_, OneXPlayer has prepared the "X1" gaming handheld, which will utilize the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H CPU, which offers 12 cores and the Intel Arc B370 iGPU. The processor appeared on Geekbench for the first time in October, confirming some of the specifications.
It is going to boast 4 Performance, 4 Efficient cores, and 4 LP-E cores with up to 4.7 GHz of boost clock. The iGPU, Arc B370, will boast 10 Xe3-based cores and is the only known Panther Lake chip to feature 10 GPU cores. While the Arc B370 wasn't benchmarked in this newest leak, we already know from the earlier leak that it is slightly slower than the Radeon 880M, which is present on the 12-core Ryzen AI 9 365 Strix Point APU.
Considering it offers Radeon 880M-level gaming performance when it releases, it's going to be a decent chip for budget/mid-range gaming handhelds, since Core Ultra 5 338H belongs to the budget-segment CPU family. The X1 gaming handheld has been tested thrice on Geekbench, revealing that the processor delivers up to 2512 points in Single Core and up to 13,265 points in Multi-core scores. These scores don't reveal much about the gaming handheld's performance, and will vary as more scores surface on Geekbench.
As for other specs, the handheld will boast 32 GB of memory, and according to the reports, the speed should be up to 9600 MT/s. Stay tuned to find out more about this handheld in the coming days/weeks, and more handheld manufacturers may already be deploying Panther Lake chips on their next models.
News Source: Geekbench
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