TECH NEWS – With twice the power consumption of the Asus ROG Ally, Ayaneo’s handheld PC takes a step up.

The Ayaneo Kun’s trackpads draw attention to the device, and we also get to see a docked mode that hasn’t been seen before. It features a 54W mode, which takes the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U APU to new heights. “The reds” target maximum power consumption of 30W, and the Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and OneXFly, for example, have all hit this level. It means that Ayaneo’s gadget could be as muscular as we’ve ever seen!

Ayaneo told PCGamer that the 54W mode is not only for docked usage, but they prefer to recommend using it that way. In handheld mode, the battery life at this power is 49 minutes. Yes, forty-nine! Granted, you can’t expect much from a 75Wh battery (and you can squeeze something like that into a laptop), and it takes up 30% of the Ayaneo Kun’s volume…

Of course, you can conventionally use the device with 15W for more than three hours, giving Ayaneo Kun an advantage over its rivals. Switching to 54W gives you a 7-14% higher frame rate in the three games tested. The question is how noisy the device will be in the meantime. It’s an 8.4″ (21.3 cm) handheld, so there’s room for the cooling solution (called KunPeng), but it’s still going to be hot. Even with the big fan, it’s still 84°C, much higher than the 15W’s 42°C! We wonder if the SD cards will have problems running at 84°C (the Asus ROG Ally has such issues…).

The Ayaneo Air 1S is the smallest handheld designed for Windows gaming so far, but the Kun follows a different direction compared to it. It’s also not priced on par with the Steam Deck: you can pre-order it on Indiegogo from today and it will start shipping in October. It’ll cost $1000 for the black 16 GB RAM+512 GB SSD version (later, it will be $1210) for the early birds. That’s already more expensive than the Asus ROG Ally, but if you look at the top model (64 GB RAM, 4 TB SSD), you’ll have to pay $1949.

It’s not cheap, but it’s a robust device.

Source: PCGamer