MSI’s handheld console swims against the tide and is based on Intel, but the question is whether the bold move will pay off.
Our colleague Márton Erdős took a close look at the second generation of the MSI Claw handheld console at Computex in June, and as the release approached, the results of the performance tests began to leak out. This time, a Geekbench benchmark result was published, where the Intel Lunar Lake chip performed quite well.
The Benchleaks Twitter page pointed out that the console’s Vulkan browser test was uploaded, where Intel Lunar Lake received 34,181 points, while Steam Deck scored only 18,513. Of course, the 84.6% increase is not at all surprising, since we are still talking about brand new hardware, compared to the Steam Deck released in 2022, which uses an AMD Van Gogh chip. The RDNA 2 architecture is no longer a modern thing.
However, it is no coincidence that most hardware manufacturers stayed with the red ones: among other things, the ROG Ally was also equipped with an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, which received 35,534 points in this test, i.e. it is still slightly ahead of the Intel BattleMage GPU.
MSI’s machine is therefore just one year behind the current champions, and moreover, the first generation MSI Claw was criticized by many for bugs, which is also a danger on the less mature Intel platform.
Source: www.pcwplus.hu
