Product Overview

Description

What is GPD WIN 2 ? 

Owning a portable handheld game console capable of running AAA games such as GTA5, has always been the dream of many gamers. But even the best handheld consoles on the market like the PSP and PSV struggle to run these games. Better game console performance normally requires a device that is sizable enough to have sufficient processing power and is able to withstand long battery use and overheating. 

GPD WIN 2 comes in compact form but doesn’t sacrifice game play experience.  GPD WIN 2`s lightweight design and heavyweight hardware processing power allows it to achieve ultimate compactness with minimum heat output and long battery life.

At GPD, we are committed to develope a handheld game console that can run AAA games smoothly.  At the same time, the heat-dissipation, power consumption, device weight, portability, battery-life and other factors will also be taken into account. Thus, we have gone through a long product development time to introduce to you a new generation of our product:The GPD WIN 2.

Real Game Testing 

 

The Major Features Of The Product 

•  The WIN 2 is equipped with a 6-inch touch screen from Sharp Corporation with a viewing angle up to 178 degrees. The WIN 2 also has a capacitive touch screen.
• Featuring a seventh generation Intel® Kaby Lake Core™ m3-7Y30 processor, with performance close to that of the Intel® Core™ i7-3770K.
• The device features a M.2 2242 port, with extremely high read/write speed capability. Game loading is 4 times faster compared to a mechanical hard disk or   eMMC.
• Equipped with 2x 4900mAh large-capacity and high-density polymer lithium batteries. The GPD WIN 2 has a maximum game play battery-life of over 6 hours.
• Brand new gamepad design with two 3D joysticks from ALPS Japan, featuring built-in dual-vibration motors to ensure that you get immersed in the game.
• Designed with an innovative PC-class cooling solution, It features a high-power turbofan which can adjust rpm dynamically from 2000 to 8800rpm.
•  WIN 2 can be charged through mobile power based on PD 2.0 or PD 3.0. At the same time, WIN 2 can also provide the power for your mobile device, such as  mobile phone.

  Apprearance 

  

GPD WIN 2 has been done in cooperation between GPD and the Red Dot Award winning design team. We feel the design of the WIN 2 has achieved the best balance of aesthetics, engineering and ergonomics.

The frame of the lid is made of light, strong magnesium alloy material to prevent the screen bending. The rounded edge design shows more affinity. The black removable ABS cover can be replaced with other zinc alloy cover. Alternatively, you can also decorate it with your own metal or adhesive stickers. Enjoy personalizing the style of your GPD WIN 2 to your taste.

To keep the WIN 2 lightweight, the main body of the WIN 2 uses ABS material. The sunken design of the joysticks allows seamless access to the other game controls. Unique arc metallic film keys, which make it more suitable for blind operation. The 360 style ABXY buttons, still use screen print double-character for their labels. The machine body, keyboard and gamepad use colors which bring out the best of the design. With an elegant matt UV finish, it provides the user with a delicate feel. The machine has been artistically designed with a fine balance of colors and material application.

The trigger keys: L1/L2/L3, R1/R2/R3 are situated at the back of the WIN 2 near both corners. The interface ports are also on the back and comprise of: Type C USB, 3.5mm headphone, USB 3.0, Micro SD card slot, Micro HDMI. The hot air outlet is also situated at the rear. The quite compact layout, brings out the best of the design.

The bottom surface of the WIN 2 has been designed with a covered slot to enable easy user replacement of the M.2 SSD card. The M.2 SSD card is fixed in place using screws, which effectively guarantees that the SSD is connected with the M.2 interface, even when the WIN 2 is shaken or in the extreme drop state.

Hardware Introduction 

 

Equipped with a 6-inch Super-Shine screen from Sharp Corporation, the viewing area has increased by 9% compared to the previous generation. Using In-Cell full lamination technology, the screen is thinner due to the reduction of a piece of glass. By applying the fourth generation of Corning Gorilla Glass, the intact rate of a 1-meter drop test is as high as 80%, and damage reduction shows a 45% improvement compared to Gorilla Glass 3. Protective design with no prominent frame, allows you to focus on your gaming. Side and upper screen borders have been kept to a minimum, with an upper border of only 5mm and a lower border of only 3mm. The screen resolution is 1280x720, it has a PPI 2.53 times greater than that of a typical 24-Inch desktop monitor. The viewing angle is up to 178 degree. The WIN 2 also has a capacitive touch screen.

Equipped with the seventh generation ultra-low voltage Intel® Kaby Lake Core™ m3-7Y30 Processor, fabricated using advanced 14nm technology. Under the same power consumption, it can deliver about 12% performance improvement compared to the previous generation Skylake technology. The bus speed of Intel® Core™ m3-7Y30 can reach 99.76MHz, with OPI bus speeds up to 4GT/s and peak data transfer of 4x10^9 times. Together with 4MB L3 cache, it greatly reduces the time to retrieve data from memory.

The WIN 2 features an M.2 2242 socket interface. It comes standard with a 128GB M.2 SSD. The SSD adopts SATA 3.0 based on the AHCI protocol, which has a theoretical bandwidth of up to 6Gb/s, and a theoretical transfer speed of up to 600MB/s.

The M.2 SSD can be easily replaced. Players can buy 256GB, 512GB or higher capacity SSD to replace the original one. There is no capacity limit, which means it can store more games, videos and applications.

Set the mode switch to X to enter the Xbox 360 gamepad mode. The gamepad still remains the style of WIN, using Japanese ALPS double-3D joystick, with the sunk-style design, which is improved to reduce operational errors.

On the left side is a classic cross style D-Pad, which enables fast and accurate directional movement. On the right is the Xbox 360 style action buttons, labeled using a screen print double-character, faster and more accurate with finger touch.

L3/R3 trigger buttons are located on the back of the WIN 2 together with L1/R1 and L2/R2. The newly designed trigger buttons make it easy for players to reach the buttons quickly, making the overall gaming experience better.

WIN 2 is also equipped with two vibration motors. It’s insane level of vibration effect will help you get more immersed in the game. The two vibrating motors are extremely powerful, providing you with an unsurpassed experience in both racing and shooting games. Each game has a unique and appropriate vibration mode. When playing shooting games, you can feel the recoil of the gun pushing you backward; when starting a car engine, you can feel the vibration of the engine as if you were really sitting in the car. Even the slightest vibration can be sensed, making you more immersed in the game than ever before.

The WIN 2 keyboard has been designed to cope with more than 1 million key presses. Key travel has been set to avoid fatigue from long typing sessions. The keyboard has an excellent feel. THE WASD, left, right, up and down keys are designed in a protruding style, which makes PC keyboard gaming easier. The concave power button has been designed to avoid inadvertent presses. In the upper right corner of the keyboard, there is the Xbox key, which can serve as "home button", "screenshot button" etc.

When the mode switch is set to the mouse mode, WIN 2 will simulate a mouse using the joystick.

Mouse control is important for PC games, as such, the WIN 2 joystick can be used to simulate a mouse. Also, in order to meet the needs of different players, the mouse speed can be increased by pressing the L2 button. If you need faster mouse movement speed, you can press the L2 button to increase the mouse speed by a factor of 2.

In order to extend the battery-life, WIN 2 uses 2×4900mAh large-capacity and high-density polymer lithium batteries, with 7.6V output, 37.24Wh of power and 600Wh/L energy density. Its battery capacity is increased by 49% compared to the previous generation WIN, the battery’s power delivery efficiency has been increased from 82% to 95%. The large batteries enable the WIN 2 to deliver an outstanding gaming battery life of over 6 hours. At the same time, our product is also the first game handheld to support PD 2.0 fast charge which can charge the battery to half full within 45 minutes.

In addition, the charging logic of the WIN 2 has been changed. When in charging mode, the motherboard is directly powered by the source supply rather than through the battery. The WIN 2 can support a maximum power supply of 12V/2A. When the power supplied by the charger is not enough to fully power the WIN 2, the battery will supply the power needed in order to ensure better performance and longer runtime of the WIN 2.

To enhance the cooling effect, the WIN 2 is designed with a PC-class cooling solution utilizing a high-power turbofan. The fan has a dynamic speed ranging from 2000 to 8800rpm. With large-volume side-blown thermal outlet design and ultra-short outlet distance, the hot air exhaust performance is 8 times greater than that of the previous generation WIN.

Also the WIN 2 increases the TDP of 4.5W to 15W. When the temperature of the CPU is between 20-80 degrees, the 60-speed dynamic temperature control will be started by BIOS to optimally balance the energy/performance ratio.

As for the design of the internal structure, it has benefited from changing the L-type motherboard, to a dual motherboard superposition design. The saved room is used to store the double battery stack, which effectively prevents the conduction of heat between the battery and motherboard.

GPD WIN 2 Specification 

 

GPD WIN 2 Parameters
Basic Information	Launch Date	Aug 2018
	Product positioning	Handheld game console
	Operating System	Windows 10 Home 64bit
Display	Touch panel	Capacitance panel, 10-point touch support
	Screen technology	Corning Gorilla Glass 4, H-IPS
	Size	6 Inch
	Display	16 : 9
	Resolution	1280 x 720
Processor	Processor	Intel Core™ m3-7Y30
	# of Core/ # of Thread	Dual-core processor/Quad threading
	Processor Base Frequency	1.00 Ghz
	Burst Frequency	2.60 Ghz
	L3  Cache	4 MB
	Bus speed	4 GT/s OPI
	Core architecture	Kaby Lake
	Lithography	14nm
	Thermal design power	15 W
Graphics     card	Graphics Type	integrated graphics
	Processor Graphics	lntel HD Graphics 615
	Base frequency	300.00 MHz
	Burst frequency	900.00 MHz
	Execution unit	24 EU
	Memory size	Shared memory capacity
	4K resolution	Support
	HDMI 1.4  max resolution	4096 x 2304, vertrefresh 24Hz
	DisplayPort max resolution	3840 x 2160, vertrefresh 60Hz
	Intel InTru 3D technology	Support, support 1080p high resolution 3-d blu-ray stereo     content and high quality audio
	DirectX	DX12
	OpenGL	4.4
Storage	RAM	8 GB
	Memory types	LPDDR3-1866
	dual-channel	support
	disk type	M.2 SSD 128GB, replaceable, no capacity limit
	disk spec	M.2 2242(22 x 42mm)
	disk port	M.2 Socket 2
	CPCI	SATA 3.0
	TCP	AHCI
Multimedia	Audio System	Built-in sound chip
	Loudspeaker	Built-in dual speakers
	Microphone	built-in microphone
Network	Wireless	Support 802.11a/b/g/n Wlan, 2.5G/5G dual band wifi
	Wi-Fi Miracast	support , WiDi  compatible
	Bluetooth	4.2
I/O port	I/P Specifications	1x USB Type A 3.0, 1x USB Type C 3.0
	Video Interface	mini HDMI
	Audio interface	3.5mm
	TF card	Micro SD no capacity limit
Input device	Keyboard	Arc-shapped metal dome array, QWERTY fukk keyboard       design
	Mouse	Support handle/mouse mode switch, support 1x/2x speed   switch
	Joystick	ALPS original joystick
	D-Pad	Classical D-pad
	function buttons	Double character print
	secondary buttons	L1 L2 L3 R1 R2 R3, OMRON original factory micro switch
	vibrating motor	Dual vibrating motor
Battery	Battery type	Non-removeable Li-PO battery
	Capacity	2 x 4900 mAh in series
	Quick charge	PD 2.0
	Duration	About 6-8 hours, It should depend on the actual working conditions.
Appearance	weight	460g
	Length	162mm
	Width	99mm
	Thickness	25mm
	shell material	ABS + duralium shell
	shell description	AB face is magnesium aluminum alloy frame + detachable   ABS cover; CD surface is ABS material, whole silver black   appearance.
	Thermal design power	Active cooling method
	The sensor type	Sensor, Hall sensor
Accessories		GPD WIN 2 x 1
		Charger x 1--12V/2A
		GPD WIN 2  warranty card x1
		GPD WIN 2  user manua l x 1
Warranty	Warranty Policy	International Warranty Service
	Warranty time	Device: one year; Charger: one year
	Service hotline	+86 755 86572275
	Website	www.gpd.hk