Asus ROG Xbox Ally X vs GPD Win 5 Performance Benchmarks and Power Scaling

A comprehensive comparison of next generation handheld gaming devices based on real world gaming benchmarks

Hardware by Naheyan Tahmin on Dec 27, 2025

We will compare the GPD Win 5, which has Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 and Radeon 8060S, to the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, the Z2 Extreme, and the Radeon 890M. You may take both of these great gaming devices with you.

We test both gadgets in different scenarios to see how well they function, how much power they consume, and how much they cost.

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Making the Profiles for the Test and the Power

We played a lot of games on both handhelds, one at 17W and the other at 35W. The GPD Win 5 also included 75W TDP benchmarks, which indicate how well it can run and how far it can go without power constraints. We used both handhelds, using mostly the settings that came with them. You can still change the GPD Win 5 Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 system, such as turning off cores, even if it's not the greatest at what it does. We'll talk more about this in the next tests.

For every game, the tests were always in the same order. We started by comparing 75W on the GPD Win 5 to 35W to see how performance changes when the power is reduced. We then tested both devices at 35W to confirm that the Xbox Ally X was the same as the other one, since it can't go any higher.

Lastly, we looked at the results of the 17W balancing mode to see how well the Xbox Ally X and the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 perform while trying to save battery life. Xbox Ally X works well at low wattages, but the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 struggles to show what it can actually achieve.

How to Show a Benchmark

We didn't want to talk to each other. Instead, the main focus was on the actual benchmark results, and timestamps were employed to transition between games. Finally, summary graphics were developed to put all the data together and make it easy to see how performance scales and how price-to-performance ratios work.

Full Power Performance

When both handhelds are at their best, it's easy to tell which is which. When configured to 75W, the GPD Win 5 performs 127% better on average across the 10 games tested than the Xbox All X. This usually means the performance is better by more than 2x. Some games don't run well on the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395's CPU, thus the graphics settings are lower. They didn't use higher settings, though, so that Xbox Ally X hardware comparisons would still be useful.

Performance at 35W

When you turn down the GPD Win 5 to 35W, it is less powerful overall, but it still has a significant lead. The GPD Win 5 is around 76% faster than the Xbox Ally X at this power level. We were able to get up to 9% better performance at 35W by making other changes, such as turning off CPU cores. This shows that there is still a lot of room for improvement beyond what we've shown here.

17W Performance

The two devices work more similarly when you look at the 17W settings, which are more about battery longevity. The scores are very close, but the GPD Win 5 does a little better on average, mostly because of the CS2 exam. Overall, the performance is about the same at this power. If you turn off some of its cores, the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 can run up to 20% quicker at 17W. This highlights how important it is to make changes to items so they work better when there's little electricity.

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A Look at How Price and Performance are Linked

The GPD Win 5 can deliver more fps per dollar than the Xbox Ally X at higher TDP settings, even though it costs a lot. The graphs comparing price-to-performance for 75W and 35W show that the GPD Win 5 is a better deal than the Xbox One X if it costs $1800. At 17W, the opposite is true: the Xbox Ally X is a better deal for people who care more about battery life than playing demanding games, even if that means lower FPS in some games.

We also came up with another way to purchase either a less expensive GPD Win 5 or the Ryzen AI Max Plus 385 version, which is usually just as good as, or better than, the 395 version. The GPD Win 5 is worth more at higher TDP levels, as evidenced by its $1500 price

Final Thoughts

GPD Win five costs more, but it performs far better and offers better price-to-performance when power constraints are high. Xbox Ally X stays powerful even at low power, down to 17W. If you want to save energy, this is the greatest option. The results show how much tuning and power profiles change how well handhelds perform. They also discuss how factors such as battery life, raw performance, and value per frame per second should influence the final choice.

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