Qualcomm announced three new G-series processors for handheld gaming consoles, aimed at taking on the re-rising market.
The bunch includes a G1 chip that can stream games from the local device or cloud seamlessly, with up to 10 hours of battery life. This is followed by a G2 chip that supports Wi-Fi 6 and 5G, and a high-end of this series, G3x Gen 2, that comes with Adreno A32 GPU, WiFi 7 and ray tracing capabilities.
Qualcomm Chips For Handheld Gaming Consoles
After reigning the smartphone market, Qualcomm is setting it’s eyes on handheld gaming consoles, which are rising now after being dead for so long. At the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany, this week, Qualcomm announced three new G-series SoCs aimed at this market.
Starting with the G1, the chip offers lag-free game streaming locally or from the cloud, playable on WiFi, with a battery life of up to 10 hours. Qualcomm’s gaming director, Mithun Chandrasekhar, said devices with the G1 chip should cost less than $200 without seller subsidies.
The next up is the G2 chip, aimed at mobile and cloud gaming and supports 5G and Wi-Fi 6/6E connectivity. It has a Kryo octa-core CPU and an Adreno A21 GPU, optimized for playing even higher-end games.
And lastly, the high-end chip of this series – G3x Gen 2, sports a Kryo octa-core CPU with it’s performance bumped up by 30% compared to it’s Gen 1 counterpart. The predecessor was used in the Razer Edge and performed pretty well. Learning from this community, Qualcomm upped the built with an Adreno A32 GPU, Wi-Fi 7 and support for PCIe Gen 4 SSDs.
This puts the chip equal to AMD’s Aerith SoC, which powers the Steam Deck. Though it can be made more robust to handle PC games, Qualcomm limited it because of and with respect to the console’s battery life. Yet, many OEMs may pick this up for their handhelds.
It’s reported that console makers like AyaNeo, Huaqin, Inventec and Thundercomm are already planning to fit in the Qualcomm G3x Gen 2 in their hardware, so we may see at least a couple of them launching consoles with this chip soon.
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