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Intel was written off in handheld gaming — then they built a custom chip for it. The MSI Claw with Intel's G3 is 35-45% faster than AMD's best handheld chip, runs true AAA games at 60-100fps, and can dock as a full PC. It's $500 too expensive because of the RAM crisis, but it sold out anyway.
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Handheld gaming is one of the fastest-growing segments in the industry, sparked by the Nintendo Switch and refined by the Steam Deck, and now Windows is in the game with a vengeance. Daniel Rubino reviewed the MSI Claw, which uses Intel's custom G3 handheld chip — a processor Intel specifically designed for this form factor, breaking from its previous habit of using power-hungry laptop chips. The result is extraordinary: the G3 is between 35 and 45% faster than AMD's top handheld chip, enabling games like Cyberpunk 2077 to run at around 90fps. Intel's XeSS AI upscaling and frame generation technology pushes frame rates even further. The device can be docked to a TV via Thunderbolt 4 for 4K gaming, connected to an eGPU, and used as a full PC. It is, Rubino says, the handheld they've all been waiting for — but at $1,799, it costs roughly $500 more than it should because of the RAM shortage, against a natural ceiling of about $1,299. Nonetheless, Best Buy was already sold out. Leo Laporte notes the irony that Intel, which infamously fumbled mobile with the ill-fated Atom chip, is now leading in a mobile-adjacent category.
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