HANDHELD NEWS – It’s a one-off build, not something you can buy off the shelf—and that might be for the best, because this thing is huge.

Handheld PCs have leapt forward in recent years, thanks largely to new APU lines from Intel and AMD. One modder, however, pushed the concept further by assembling a handheld that runs an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU—meaning it relies on a dedicated graphics chip rather than an APU. Chinese creator Qingchen DIY paired a laptop motherboard with a 12.5-inch display and matched it with an equally beefy CPU (Intel Core i9-14900HX). The result is in-game performance unlike anything we’ve seen from a handheld.

It chewed through God of War, Horizon Forbidden West, and Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K settings, delivering a flawless experience even with high presets. Most handhelds struggle to push those titles at 1080p with acceptable frame rates, but the laptop-class RTX 4090 here puts up eye-opening numbers. The build also packs 64 GB of DDR5-5600 memory and a 2 TB NVMe SSD, all integrated on the laptop motherboard.

To stay true to the handheld format, the device includes standard face buttons, triggers, and dual analog sticks. The obvious question: what about thermals? The NVIDIA laptop GPU reportedly tops out around 72°C during gameplay—impressive, given the custom internal cooling approach that differs from conventional notebooks.

Given its footprint, calling it a “handheld” might feel a bit generous—yet that’s exactly what it is. It’s simply prettier, bigger, and heavier than the norm, stuffed with far more metal than a typical portable.

Source: WCCFTech, VideoCardz