[ineedasername]

Similar: I have a Hades Canyon GH Nuc because I want a very low profile rig that can run older games on high and new games on low and throw it in a bag w/ power adapter & go. Not only does this accomplish the same thing, it runs Linux and means that if I'm just bringing something along for gaming it's completely self contained.

[aj3]

And it boosts Linux stats among Steam users.

[zzt123]

Specs say it’s a 15w unit (much lower than Hades Canyon), so I imagine the performance will be lacking as it appears to be a Zen 2 based APU.

Would be interesting to see how this does on Zen 4 with the 5nm upgrade.

[ineedasername]

Sure: The Hades Canyon gets (for my benchmarks) something a little bit under a GTX 1060.

The fact that the Zen 2 is 7nm vs the Canyon's 14nm means the performance/watt will be much better. It also has significantly more RAM, and better quality: LPDDR5 instead of DDR4. This also lowers power requirements while at the same time that it improves performance.

But no, I don't think this will be as powerful as a Hades Canyon. Although it also won't have to push pixels to a 2k display like my Canyon does. It doesn't need to be nearly as powerful to provide a similar experience on a small display. (in terms of smoothness. Also higher quality gfx setting will be wasted on this display size, so there's no point worrying about it not running well on "high" textures when the difference between "medium" won't be noticeable on 720p @ 7")

[zzt123]

Oh I agree. I meant moreso that it would be awesome to see a zen4 + rdna3 option one day, if we don’t get zen canceled. If the performance increase from zen 2 to zen 3 could be repeated for zen 4… what a powerful little gamepad that would be!