AMD Merlin Falcon RX-421BD (12-15w) SoC at 2.1 GHz in the new SMACH Z Steam handheld.

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Heard of the SMACH Z? It's the new handheld that is featuring the ability to play some of your Steam library. I suppose that it will stream the rest of the games via WiFi to the device. Anyway the tasty bits about it are in the APU inside the thing! The 12w - 15w little engine that could. Figured that since we're all just waiting for Zen at this point; might as well have something different to talk about!

First of all let me link the thread from the video card section.
SMACH Z: AMD GPU

Found this information on the AMD website.
https://www.amd.com/Documents/merlin-falcon-product-brief.pdf

Found this via Google fu.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-R-Series RX-421BD.html

Here is the CPU from their Kickstarter page.


  • CPU: AMD Merlin Falcon RX-421BD (12-15w) SoC at 2.1 GHz
  • Cores: 4/4
  • iGPU: Radeon R7 at 800 MHz
  • RAM: 4GB (SMACH Z) || 8GB (SMACH Z PRO) DDR4 2133 MHz
  • HD: 64GB (SMACH Z) || 128GB (SMACH Z PRO)
  • Screen: 6” FULL HD (1920x1080). Capacitive touch-screen.
  • Battery: 5 hours of gaming.
  • MicroSD Card Slot.
  • USB 3.0 type C.
  • HDMI video output connection.
  • Wi-Fi connectivity 5.0 Ghz. 4G LTE mobile network connectivity (PRO model only)
  • Bluetooth connectivity.
  • Front-camera 1.3-megapixels (PRO model only)
*Some specifications depend on Stretch goals, you can check Stretch goals at the end of the page.

These are the technical specifications of the AMD SoC model that will be used in SMACH Z:

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The following benchmarks have been run on the final hardware of the SMACH Z PRO: Merlin Falcon RX-421BD (12-15w) SoC at 2.1 GHz with Radeon R7 at 800 MHz and 8 RAM, running on Windows 10.

  • Metro: Last Light Redux (720p. High settings) ~ 35 FPS
  • Company of Heroes 2 (720p. Medium settings) ~ 25 FPS
  • Jotun (1080p) ~ 45 FPS
  • Skyrim (720p. High setting) ~ 25 FPS
  • Just Cause 2 (720p. Medium settings) ~ 35 FPS
  • Spiral Knights (1080p) ~ 50 FPS
  • Overwatch (720p. Medium) ~ 30 FPS
  • Torchlight II (1080p. Very high settings) ~ 35 FPS
  • Xcom: Enemy Unknown (720p. High settings) ~30 FPS
  • Civilization 5 (1080p. High settings) ~ 28 FPS
  • Tomb Raider: Survivor (720p. Medium settings) ~ 40 FPS
  • Alien: Isolation (720p. Ultra settings) ~ 35 FPS



What do you think?
 
So do you think that this is AMD's other design win and the Nintendo NX will be using a NVidia SOC?
 
craz0 said:
So do you think that this is AMD's other design win and the Nintendo NX will be using a NVidia SOC?
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I saw an AMD ad and it listed all the consoles they were proud to be involved with. Nintendo wasn't one of them. And neither was this device. So maybe they are waiting for the NDA on console announcements is up before claiming them.

I heard that Nvidia is basically giving Nintendo the Tegra chips for free to get a name in the living room. So I'm leaning towards them winning that device.
 
35 watts in a handheld... this is gonna be gamegear round two. Also to the NX discussion, I dissent on the idea that nvidia is in that thing.
 
I really don't care either way if its AMD or NVidia, im interested more in base station function getting a little to old to walking around with a gameboy ;-) as long as its competitive and it brings Nintendo back into the game
 
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