**GPU Performance Testing with the Nintendo Switch 84U**

The Nintendo Switch 84U is a powerful handheld console that has been generating buzz among gamers and tech enthusiasts alike. In this article, we will take a closer look at the GPU performance of the Switch 84U, specifically in terms of its ability to render games at high frame rates and resolutions.

We began our testing by playing Cyberpunk 2077 at high settings, with an average frame rate of around 73 FPS at 1080p. However, when we enabled FSR (Frame Rate Scaling), the game's performance improved significantly, with averages of over 80 FPS at 1080p. We then moved on to Forza Horizon 5, a game that is notoriously demanding on GPUs. Even without scaling, the Switch 84U was able to deliver smooth gameplay at high frame rates, with an average of over 80 FPS at 1080p. When we enabled AMD Frame Gen, the game's performance improved even further, with averages of around 2 FPS and a 1% low of 55.

We also tested Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, a game that is known for its demanding GPU requirements. Even with AMD Frame Gen enabled, the Switch 84U was able to deliver smooth gameplay at high frame rates, with an average of over 80 FPS at 1080p and a 1% low of around 55.

However, not all games are created equal, and some titles are more demanding than others. We tested Horizon Forbidden West, a game that has been notorious for its GPU requirements on various platforms. Even without Frame Gen enabled, the Switch 84U was able to deliver smooth gameplay at high frame rates, albeit with some compromises in terms of performance.

**Battery Life Testing**

In addition to testing the GPU performance of the Switch 84U, we also wanted to test its battery life. To do this, we used the game Cyberpunk 2077, which is a power-hungry title that can drain even the most powerful batteries. We tested the battery life of the Switch 84U at various screen brightness settings, from 10% to 50%.

At 10% screen brightness, the Switch 84U was able to deliver around 3 hours of runtime on a single charge. However, when we increased the screen brightness to 25%, the battery life dropped to around 2 hours and 20 minutes. At 50% screen brightness, the battery life plummeted to just over an hour.

We repeated this test at different TDP settings (10W, 15W, 20W, and 30W), with varying results. At 10W, the Switch 84U was able to deliver around 3 hours of runtime, while at 30W, the battery life dropped to just over an hour.

**Sound Quality and Ergonomics**

The Nintendo Switch 84U also features impressive sound quality, thanks to its new 1X Fly audio system. The sound is crisp and clear, with good bass response and a comfortable listening experience. However, we did find that the d-pad could be improved, as it uses dome switches underneath instead of conductive pads.

The ergonomics of the Switch 84U are also worth noting. The console is compact and lightweight, making it easy to carry around. The screen is bright and colorful, with a high refresh rate that makes for smooth gameplay. However, we did find that the screen was not equipped with FreeSync or VRR technology, which could lead to some issues with screen tearing.

**Conclusion**

The Nintendo Switch 84U is a powerful handheld console that delivers impressive GPU performance and good battery life. While there are some areas for improvement, such as the d-pad design and the lack of FreeSync/VRR technology on the screen, overall we were impressed with the console's capabilities. We will continue to test the Switch 84U in the coming days and weeks, including testing its compatibility with external GPUs and other accessories.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new version of the 1X fly from 1X player now the main upgrade here is actually the Apu instead of using the ryzen 778 40u we've got the 88 40u so we've got a nice little upgrade over there we've still got that bezeless 120 HZ 7-in display dual stereo speakers tuned by Harmon and I got to say 1X is really been doing a great job with their sound systems with their recent releases their audio quality has definitely been Top Notch and this is a very compact handheld it's actually only coming in at 599 G it's a super Sleek design and they're offering two different color variants you can pick it up in white or black and in this video we've got quite a bit to cover I definitely want to test out some games we're going to run some benchmarks here but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys you play Ubisoft but the main thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description when it comes to the overall design of the 1X fly one thing that's really going to stand out to a lot of people are these Wings here with the RGB name plates I know with their Kickstarter on the original you can get these customized and I'm not exactly sure if you can still do it with the 8840 powered version but if you want to check their site you definitely can now just taking a look across the top here we do have a full-size USB 3.2 Port usb4 3.5mm audio jack volume rocker power button and we also have these programmable M keys so we can actually set these up to be basically any button from software moving around to the bottom of the unit dual stereo speakers tune Haron another USB 4 port and a Micro SD card slot personally I've always liked the feel of the 1X fly I think it's actually pretty comfortable we've got these rounded edges that fit right in your palms you can reach all of the buttons quite easily and it's only coming in at 599 G these linear triggers around back actually have quite a bit of throw which comes in really handy for racing games fulls size analog sticks and it does feel like they're using that same d-pad which I wasn't a huge fan of but we will be testing it in this video just to see if anything's changed these programmable M keys are kind of a pain to get to while you're playing a game you can see that right here so you do really have to kind of move your hand to get to them but I usually set these up as hot keys and speaking of hot Keys we've got a couple extra pre-programmed right on the front of the unit the one in the lower leftand corner is going to minimize or maximize whatever app we have up running easy to get to the desktop this way we've also got an on-screen keyboard button so at any given time we can bring that up and of course we've got the turbo button which is going to bring up 1X console from here we can customize the rgp TDP we'll get in a bit closer cuz they have changed a few things here also gyro support fan control and if we hold this button for about 2 and 1/2 seconds it'll bring us into the 1X game launcher this will automatically scan our default directories download a little bit of boxart and some metadata for our games so we can go ahead and launch them directly from here it is fully updatable through the app itself and again we will move in a bit closer in just a sec but when it comes to the overall specs of the new 1X fly basically what we've got here is that ryzen 78840 U so we get eight cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.3 boost up to 5.1 built-in Radeon 780m graphics based on rdna 3 you can get this with up to 64 GB of LP ddr5x running at 7500 MHz it supports a 2280 Gen 4 m.2 SSD I've got a 1 TB model with 64 gigs of RAM we've also got Harmon audio EFX tuned speakers 7-in bezeless 120 HZ IPS display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 48w hour battery and this does come with a 65 wat fast charger in the Box weight is right at 599 G and when you purchase one of these it will have Windows 11 pre-install but remember we can basically install Linux on anything jumping over to my game capture again pressing that turbo button once is going to bring up our overlay from here we've got our performance setting so we can go anywhere from 4 Watts up to 30 WTS with it we've also got a fan mode setting automatic works really well with this system but if you wanted to you could actually set up a custom curve so you can go ahead and adjust this if you need to I'm usually sitting it automatic vibration settings we can go all the way up with it and this does have some pretty strong feedback we can also change the resolution adjust that RGB there is a performance overlay that's preset up but you will need to install rivit tuner for it turbo on the CPU can be disabled at any given time built-in gyro can be adjusted from here and we've got a couple different modes that we can use here Mouse mode Xbox Gamepad or DS4 Gamepad you can also set up a hotkey to enable it or disable it at any given time brightness control volume and of course holding that button for about 2 and 1/2 seconds is going to bring us into our game launcher obviously we've got our games here with a little bit of background artwork heading into cyberpunk little description we can also set up a custom preset to tell you the truth I usually just launch launch my games from desktop but we've got another section here known as program controller and from here we can totally remap the game pad like we saw we've got those extra triggers and they call them expand keys I call them M Keys you can map these to your liking d-pad shoulder and triggers rocker adjustment and we've also got a macro so there's actually four different macros that we can set up I don't know if we could actually add another one here I think it might be just four all together so if you wanted to set up let's say a special move in a fighting game you could pre-program it for a single button or a hotkey and a single button Update Center Controller driver bios and other firmware can be updated from 1X console so yeah they've actually put a lot into this and uh you know having this overlay at any time is really handy that way we can really adjust that TDP dial it in depending on what game you're playing and of course that's what this thing's all about gaming so let's go ahead and see how it performs checking out some lower TDP 120 HZ gaming with Hades 2 I've got the TDP set at 15 watts and keep in mind if you just wanted to run this at 60 you could actually get away with around 8 to 9 Watts but at 120 HZ 1080p High settings with this game looks like we're drawing around 14.2 watts and I just wanted to see you know the maximum here I'm sure if I turned off Bluetooth maybe that RGB lowered the screen brightness we could lower that a bit but most of the time I would be playing this at 60 anyway and that's around 8 watts next thing I wanted to do was check out this d-pad so I figured we'd test out some Street Fighter 6 I'm at an 18 watt TDP medium 1080p d-pad is definitely not my favorite feels like I need to put a little more force on it it doesn't have the kind of role that I really like but it is usable I can pull these moves off pretty easily with it seeing this game Run so well at a 20 W TDP is really impressive but there are a few behind it because this game does support amd's frame generation from within the game settings right now we're at 1080 medium settings FSR 3.1 is set to balance and we've got amd's frame generation turned on just to make it a bit easier on me I went ahead and connected a controller we've got cyberpunk 2077 1080p low settings with FSR set to Performance right now we're at an 18w TDP looking pretty decent but we can actually take this up a bit and if you wanted to go down to 15 watts you will have to drop that resolution down to around 900 just to get over 60 there that's how it is with these igpus but on these risen chips with rdna A3 Graphics I usually set it at about 20 wats even when I'm on battery that way I never go under 60 there so right now we've got a 20 W TDP 1080 FSR is at performance low with cyberpunk 2077 we can see averages of around 73 FPS moving over to something a little easier to run we've got Forza Horizon 5 medium 1080 no scaling so we didn't need to enable FSR with this game this one just works really well on these rdna A3 chips uh even at that lower wattage you can see we're only at 15 watts and we're over 80 FPS on average I also wanted to test out Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 we're at 1080p balanced preset 30 W TDP with AMD frame gen on from the settings we got an average of2 FPS now that 1% low was 55 it's not too bad but yeah I mean we could take a couple of those setting things down if you need to and the final one I wanted to test here was Horizon forbidden West drop this down to 900p where at low settings 30 W TDP frame gen is on from the settings so yeah this is one of those games that has just giving me a lot of issues on these igpus you really have to take it down but I'll tell you with frame gen off we're at about 42 FPS so yeah that's really going to help out here and I'm super glad that NYX has added it to most of their PC ports that they have out right now now now it's time to take a look at battery life and for this I'm going to be using cyberpunk 2077 1080p High settings we're going to be testing at 10 watt 15 20 and 30 we do know what size the battery is so if we can get total battery draw here which we have on screen using Hardware info we can calculate battery life and get pretty close to it at a 10 wat TDP this is pulling 15.7 watt going up to 15 Wat we're right under 24 Watts total battery draw and that's everything we've got on right now so given what we know we've got a 48.5 w battery 50% screen brightness Wi-Fi Bluetooth on I've also got RGB off 10 wat TDP 16 wat draw in total from that battery around 3 hours of runtime at a 15 wat TDP it's drawing 24 watt so we're right there at 2 hours going up to a 20 W TDP it's drawn 29 Watts from that battery so 1 hour and 40 minutes and then totally maxed out at a 30 W TDP 41 Watts 1 hour and 10 minutes now this is really worst case scenario with that 50% screen brightness because we were running cyberpunk 2077 at high settings which is drawn as basically as much as it can given that we've got it set at a certain wattage so you know playing Indie Games things like that there's a chance that you know if you've got it set at a 15 watt TDP it's not drawing 24 Watts continuously from that battery overall I think the new 1X fly is a really comfortable handheld to hang on too sound on this is really great and again 1X player has been doing a great job with their sound systems button layout works really well but I do wish we had a different d-pad here this is using what I think is just Dome switches underneath it if we had conductive pads and just a little more roll to it I would actually really like this d-pad in my experience with this I did have to press on it harder than I usually do with other d-pads that are just better quality but it does work as you saw with Street Fighter 6 it's definitely a compact handheld personally I do like the look of it the screen is awesome I mean we've got a 1080p 120 HZ 7in bezeless display but unfortunately it's not a freesync or a vrr display in this unit I think that would have made a world of difference for a lot of people out there if they could have went with a free sync in this unit here just to alleviate any kind of screen tearing if you've got it set to a certain refresh rate and your game just can't quite make it there I'm going to spend a few more days with this and I'll have at least one more video coming up I definitely want to test out an egpu with this unit given that we've got usb4 here and if there's anything else you want to see running on the new 84u powered 1X fly just let me know in the comments below if you're interested in learning a little more about this handheld I'll leave some links in the description like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new version of the 1X fly from 1X player now the main upgrade here is actually the Apu instead of using the ryzen 778 40u we've got the 88 40u so we've got a nice little upgrade over there we've still got that bezeless 120 HZ 7-in display dual stereo speakers tuned by Harmon and I got to say 1X is really been doing a great job with their sound systems with their recent releases their audio quality has definitely been Top Notch and this is a very compact handheld it's actually only coming in at 599 G it's a super Sleek design and they're offering two different color variants you can pick it up in white or black and in this video we've got quite a bit to cover I definitely want to test out some games we're going to run some benchmarks here but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys you play Ubisoft but the main thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description when it comes to the overall design of the 1X fly one thing that's really going to stand out to a lot of people are these Wings here with the RGB name plates I know with their Kickstarter on the original you can get these customized and I'm not exactly sure if you can still do it with the 8840 powered version but if you want to check their site you definitely can now just taking a look across the top here we do have a full-size USB 3.2 Port usb4 3.5mm audio jack volume rocker power button and we also have these programmable M keys so we can actually set these up to be basically any button from software moving around to the bottom of the unit dual stereo speakers tune Haron another USB 4 port and a Micro SD card slot personally I've always liked the feel of the 1X fly I think it's actually pretty comfortable we've got these rounded edges that fit right in your palms you can reach all of the buttons quite easily and it's only coming in at 599 G these linear triggers around back actually have quite a bit of throw which comes in really handy for racing games fulls size analog sticks and it does feel like they're using that same d-pad which I wasn't a huge fan of but we will be testing it in this video just to see if anything's changed these programmable M keys are kind of a pain to get to while you're playing a game you can see that right here so you do really have to kind of move your hand to get to them but I usually set these up as hot keys and speaking of hot Keys we've got a couple extra pre-programmed right on the front of the unit the one in the lower leftand corner is going to minimize or maximize whatever app we have up running easy to get to the desktop this way we've also got an on-screen keyboard button so at any given time we can bring that up and of course we've got the turbo button which is going to bring up 1X console from here we can customize the rgp TDP we'll get in a bit closer cuz they have changed a few things here also gyro support fan control and if we hold this button for about 2 and 1/2 seconds it'll bring us into the 1X game launcher this will automatically scan our default directories download a little bit of boxart and some metadata for our games so we can go ahead and launch them directly from here it is fully updatable through the app itself and again we will move in a bit closer in just a sec but when it comes to the overall specs of the new 1X fly basically what we've got here is that ryzen 78840 U so we get eight cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.3 boost up to 5.1 built-in Radeon 780m graphics based on rdna 3 you can get this with up to 64 GB of LP ddr5x running at 7500 MHz it supports a 2280 Gen 4 m.2 SSD I've got a 1 TB model with 64 gigs of RAM we've also got Harmon audio EFX tuned speakers 7-in bezeless 120 HZ IPS display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 48w hour battery and this does come with a 65 wat fast charger in the Box weight is right at 599 G and when you purchase one of these it will have Windows 11 pre-install but remember we can basically install Linux on anything jumping over to my game capture again pressing that turbo button once is going to bring up our overlay from here we've got our performance setting so we can go anywhere from 4 Watts up to 30 WTS with it we've also got a fan mode setting automatic works really well with this system but if you wanted to you could actually set up a custom curve so you can go ahead and adjust this if you need to I'm usually sitting it automatic vibration settings we can go all the way up with it and this does have some pretty strong feedback we can also change the resolution adjust that RGB there is a performance overlay that's preset up but you will need to install rivit tuner for it turbo on the CPU can be disabled at any given time built-in gyro can be adjusted from here and we've got a couple different modes that we can use here Mouse mode Xbox Gamepad or DS4 Gamepad you can also set up a hotkey to enable it or disable it at any given time brightness control volume and of course holding that button for about 2 and 1/2 seconds is going to bring us into our game launcher obviously we've got our games here with a little bit of background artwork heading into cyberpunk little description we can also set up a custom preset to tell you the truth I usually just launch launch my games from desktop but we've got another section here known as program controller and from here we can totally remap the game pad like we saw we've got those extra triggers and they call them expand keys I call them M Keys you can map these to your liking d-pad shoulder and triggers rocker adjustment and we've also got a macro so there's actually four different macros that we can set up I don't know if we could actually add another one here I think it might be just four all together so if you wanted to set up let's say a special move in a fighting game you could pre-program it for a single button or a hotkey and a single button Update Center Controller driver bios and other firmware can be updated from 1X console so yeah they've actually put a lot into this and uh you know having this overlay at any time is really handy that way we can really adjust that TDP dial it in depending on what game you're playing and of course that's what this thing's all about gaming so let's go ahead and see how it performs checking out some lower TDP 120 HZ gaming with Hades 2 I've got the TDP set at 15 watts and keep in mind if you just wanted to run this at 60 you could actually get away with around 8 to 9 Watts but at 120 HZ 1080p High settings with this game looks like we're drawing around 14.2 watts and I just wanted to see you know the maximum here I'm sure if I turned off Bluetooth maybe that RGB lowered the screen brightness we could lower that a bit but most of the time I would be playing this at 60 anyway and that's around 8 watts next thing I wanted to do was check out this d-pad so I figured we'd test out some Street Fighter 6 I'm at an 18 watt TDP medium 1080p d-pad is definitely not my favorite feels like I need to put a little more force on it it doesn't have the kind of role that I really like but it is usable I can pull these moves off pretty easily with it seeing this game Run so well at a 20 W TDP is really impressive but there are a few behind it because this game does support amd's frame generation from within the game settings right now we're at 1080 medium settings FSR 3.1 is set to balance and we've got amd's frame generation turned on just to make it a bit easier on me I went ahead and connected a controller we've got cyberpunk 2077 1080p low settings with FSR set to Performance right now we're at an 18w TDP looking pretty decent but we can actually take this up a bit and if you wanted to go down to 15 watts you will have to drop that resolution down to around 900 just to get over 60 there that's how it is with these igpus but on these risen chips with rdna A3 Graphics I usually set it at about 20 wats even when I'm on battery that way I never go under 60 there so right now we've got a 20 W TDP 1080 FSR is at performance low with cyberpunk 2077 we can see averages of around 73 FPS moving over to something a little easier to run we've got Forza Horizon 5 medium 1080 no scaling so we didn't need to enable FSR with this game this one just works really well on these rdna A3 chips uh even at that lower wattage you can see we're only at 15 watts and we're over 80 FPS on average I also wanted to test out Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 we're at 1080p balanced preset 30 W TDP with AMD frame gen on from the settings we got an average of2 FPS now that 1% low was 55 it's not too bad but yeah I mean we could take a couple of those setting things down if you need to and the final one I wanted to test here was Horizon forbidden West drop this down to 900p where at low settings 30 W TDP frame gen is on from the settings so yeah this is one of those games that has just giving me a lot of issues on these igpus you really have to take it down but I'll tell you with frame gen off we're at about 42 FPS so yeah that's really going to help out here and I'm super glad that NYX has added it to most of their PC ports that they have out right now now now it's time to take a look at battery life and for this I'm going to be using cyberpunk 2077 1080p High settings we're going to be testing at 10 watt 15 20 and 30 we do know what size the battery is so if we can get total battery draw here which we have on screen using Hardware info we can calculate battery life and get pretty close to it at a 10 wat TDP this is pulling 15.7 watt going up to 15 Wat we're right under 24 Watts total battery draw and that's everything we've got on right now so given what we know we've got a 48.5 w battery 50% screen brightness Wi-Fi Bluetooth on I've also got RGB off 10 wat TDP 16 wat draw in total from that battery around 3 hours of runtime at a 15 wat TDP it's drawing 24 watt so we're right there at 2 hours going up to a 20 W TDP it's drawn 29 Watts from that battery so 1 hour and 40 minutes and then totally maxed out at a 30 W TDP 41 Watts 1 hour and 10 minutes now this is really worst case scenario with that 50% screen brightness because we were running cyberpunk 2077 at high settings which is drawn as basically as much as it can given that we've got it set at a certain wattage so you know playing Indie Games things like that there's a chance that you know if you've got it set at a 15 watt TDP it's not drawing 24 Watts continuously from that battery overall I think the new 1X fly is a really comfortable handheld to hang on too sound on this is really great and again 1X player has been doing a great job with their sound systems button layout works really well but I do wish we had a different d-pad here this is using what I think is just Dome switches underneath it if we had conductive pads and just a little more roll to it I would actually really like this d-pad in my experience with this I did have to press on it harder than I usually do with other d-pads that are just better quality but it does work as you saw with Street Fighter 6 it's definitely a compact handheld personally I do like the look of it the screen is awesome I mean we've got a 1080p 120 HZ 7in bezeless display but unfortunately it's not a freesync or a vrr display in this unit I think that would have made a world of difference for a lot of people out there if they could have went with a free sync in this unit here just to alleviate any kind of screen tearing if you've got it set to a certain refresh rate and your game just can't quite make it there I'm going to spend a few more days with this and I'll have at least one more video coming up I definitely want to test out an egpu with this unit given that we've got usb4 here and if there's anything else you want to see running on the new 84u powered 1X fly just let me know in the comments below if you're interested in learning a little more about this handheld I'll leave some links in the description like always thanks for watching\n"