{"id":1567461,"date":"2026-05-01T12:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehSmXEkybvQuCzbi7wrpZG"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:33:56","slug":"if-the-rampocalypse-doesnt-price-them-into-oblivion-the-next-generation-of-hot-handheld-gaming-pcs-could-well-be-intel-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/if-the-rampocalypse-doesnt-price-them-into-oblivion-the-next-generation-of-hot-handheld-gaming-pcs-could-well-be-intel-powered\/","title":{"rendered":"If the RAMpocalypse doesn’t price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although the AI-induced global memory crisis is currently doing its very best to wipe out the consumer PC market, that doesn’t mean system vendors are giving up on releasing new products. In fact, we’re just a month away from Computex, and you can be sure to see a whole raft of new desktops, laptops, and handheld gaming PCs. And in the case of the latter, the best ones could well have an Intel chip inside them.<\/p>\n

That’s if the latest PassMark benchmark result<\/a> for the Intel Arc G3 Extreme is anything to go by, at least (via Wccftech<\/a>). Never heard of that chip? Well, you’ve just joined a very large club, because it’s not been officially announced yet, but essentially it’s a Panther Lake processor that has a top-of-the-class graphics tile, but a retake-the-year compute tile.<\/p>\n

More specifically, you’re looking at a chip that has a 12 Xe core Arc B390 iGPU, which is a very capable little pixel pusher<\/a> (though it really needs fast DRAM to make it shine<\/a>). However, on the CPU-side of things, you’re only getting two P-cores, eight E-cores, and four Low Power E-cores.<\/p>\n

AMD’s best APU for handheld gaming PCs, the Ryzen Z2 Extreme, also has a beefy iGPU\u201416 RDNA 3.5 compute units, with a boost clock of up to 2.7 GHz\u2014and seems to have better CPU specs, on paper, than the Arc G3 Extreme. While its eight cores comprise three Zen 5 and five, lower-clocked Zen 5c, in terms of configuration, it supports up to 16 threads in total. Intel’s chip is a little behind with 14.<\/p>\n

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