At its recent launch event, OneXPlayer made several announcements, including the X1 Air handheld & OneXGPU Lite eGPU enclosure.
OneXPlayer Brings Intel Lunar Lake To Its Handheld Lineup With The X1 Air, Starting At Under $1000 US
The first major announcement by OneXPlayer is its X1 Air handheld, which is designed as a 3-in-1 gaming platform. Just like the X1 Pro, which we tested here, the device can be used as a handheld, a tablet, and a laptop. That's why it comes with two removable joysticks and even a magnetic keyboard dock.
Let's start with the specifications. The OneXPlayer X1 Air will feature the Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra Series 2" CPUs in Core Ultra 5 228V and Core Ultra 7 258V flavors. These CPUs feature four P-Cores, & four LP-E cores. The first difference on the CPU side is the clock speed, where the Ultra 5 maxes out at 4.5 GHz and the Ultra 7 maxes out at 4.8 GHz.
Then we have the iGPU, which is based on the Battlemage GPU architecture. The Ultra 5 features "Arc 130V" 7 Xe2 cores, which max out at 1.85 GHz, while the Ultra 7 features "Arc 140V" 8 Xe2 cores and maxes out at 1.95 GHz. The newer Arc Battlemage GPUs are very capable integrated solutions, and do end up matching AMD's fastest RDNA 3.5 iGPUs or exceeding them in performance.
Besides the CPU, the OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld features 32 GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, up to 2 TB of NVMe storage based on PCIe 4.0, a 72.77Wh battery, and a 10.95" 120Hz touch panel with a maximum resolution of 2560x1600 and 540 nits of peak brightness.
On the IO side, the handheld offers 2 USB 4.0 Type-C ports, 1 USB 3.2 Type-A port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a TF 4.0 card slot which can support up to 2 TB capacities and up to 300 MB/s speeds, and a Mini SSD slot, which can support up to 1 TB capacities and up to 4000 MB/s speeds. The handheld has WIFI7 support along with Bluetooth 5.2 capability, and offers an 8-ohm/1-w speaker setup from Harman.
In terms of design, the OneXPlayer X1 Air is pretty similar to the X1 Pro; it measures 252x163.5x13.5mm and weighs 835g. The device doesn't feature an Oculink port like the Pro variant, but that's about it. As for pricing, the OneXPlayer X1 Air has the following variants:
- Ultra 5-228V, 32+512GB, 6899 RMB (~$950 US)
- Ultra 7-258V, 32+1TB, 7999 RMB (~$1100 US)
- Ultra 7-258V, 32+2TB, 8599 RMB (~$1200 US)
Besides the handheld, OneXPlayer is also launching a new eGPU, the OneXGPU Lite, which features the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT. This is a more compact version of their original OneXGPU console, which houses the RX 7800M GPUs. It was also previously reported that the upcoming eGPU would feature new USB/TB 5.0 technology, and that seems to be the case, as revealed by the manufacturer.
So starting with the specs, we have the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT with 32 compute units based on the RDNA 3 architecture. Since there's no RDNA 4 mobile GPU on the market, RDNA 3 remains the only choice for eGPUs or laptops; It's a 6nm chip with 2048 cores, and up to 2.3 GHz clocks, which is running at 120W. The chip also houses 32 MB of Infinity Cache, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory running across a 128-bit bus interface at 18 Gbps for up to 288 GB/s bandwidth.
In terms of features, RDNA 4 does has the upper hand with FSR 4, and a lot more capabilities. You can see the performance above.
The eGPU module has various IO ports such as 1 USB5 Type-C with up to 65W power delivery, 1 PCIe 4.0x4 "OCULink" slot, 1 DP 2.0 port, and can run two screens simultaneously. The module packs a 280W power supply and measures 114x116x34.5mm while weighing 493.5g. The module comes with its own cooling with a blower fan providing 13.6CFM of airflow. The OneXGPU Lite is priced at 3899 RMB or $550 US.
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