GPD Box mini PC Performance Benchmarks Reveal Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and Xe3 Graphics 1440p Gaming Results
The GPD Box mini PC is put through its first thorough performance benchmarks in the recent video published to the popular tech YouTube channel ETA PRIME. The system was tested in its higher end configuration which includes an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H processor equipped with the Intel ARC B390 graphics processing unit which is based on the new Xe3 graphics architecture, and is the strongest integrated graphics currently developed by Intel. The mini PC was stressed to its limit across several of the most demanding current generation games to observe its performance without a dedicated GPU.
The GPD Box comes with a built in 160W power supply removing the need for a clunky external power brick and includes an MCIO expansion slot, which acts as the next step up from OCuLink offering up to 256GB/s of bandwidth for a discrete GPU or other components. Other hardware specs include an LPDDR5X 8533 32GB memory configuration and two M.2 slots. Wireless includes Wifi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3. Our system arrived with Windows 11 installed.
During testing power and thermal metrics were extremely low. The GPD Box consumed 8W when at idle and reached about 72W under gaming load. Our processor temperature stayed relatively consistent, ranging from a low of 67 C and topping out at 82 C when running through benchmarks.
Each game tested here on the GPD Box was put through a 1440p benchmarking pass in order to give its integrated graphics the full experience. We got around 67fps with Forza Horizon 5 with high settings enabled, no XeSS, 70+fps with Red Dead Redemption 2 on a mixture of high/ultra settings, no FSR upscaling. Cyberpunk 2077 had a super consistent 130fps on high with XeSS Frame Gen on 4x and on high with 82fps native on ultra without any scaling options.
For action titles the results were just as good. We got a consistent 80 90fps on high settings with God of War Ragnarok at XeSS Balanced, 114fps at XeSS Balanced with Frame Gen 3x for Crimson Desert. It looks like the new Xe3 graphics architecture will be able to power very intense and high fidelity games at resolutions other than 1080p.
