TL;DR The OneXFly Apex is a new premium Windows gaming handheld from One Netbook.
It features an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, an 8-inch 120Hz VRR display, and an 85Wh external battery.
More details will be revealed in a livestream tomorrow morning, but it won’t be cheap.
While traditional Windows gaming handhelds, such as the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally, appear to be struggling with their releases, a new category of ultra-powerful handhelds has been surprisingly popular. The first was the GPD Win 5, which took the battery outside of the handheld and paired it with an unprecedented level of power in the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. Now, another handheld is following suit, and it truly ups the ante.
The OneXFly Apex is an upcoming handheld with a massive 8-inch 120Hz VRR display, even larger than the 7-inch display on the GPD Win 5. This could be the same IPS display used on the MSI Claw 8 AI+ and Legion Go S. We loved the display in our review of the Legion Go S, although it’s not as premium as the 8.8-inch OLED panel in the upcoming Legion Go 2.
The OneXFly Apex might be the most powerful gaming handheld ever released.
While this will make the device larger, it cleverly reduces extra weight by utilizing an external 85Wh battery. Presumably, this can clip onto the back of the device for handheld use, similar to the GPD Win 5, and it promises “external liquid cooling” to prevent heat throttling. This should make it much quieter than traditional fan cooling. However, the chipset draws a lot of power, and it will likely need to be plugged in most of the time.
The Apex will be powered by the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395, providing incredible power for a gaming handheld. One Netbook claims it offers “RTX 4070-class performance,” as well as local compatibility with DeepSeek 70B LLMs.
In any case, it offers up to 120W TDP, which is even higher than the 85W maximum on the GPD Win 5. Granted, you’ll never want to push that device that hard, and low TDP performance is a much better benchmark.
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