**Ultra High Performance Gaming on the New IO Neo Handheld Console**

In this article, we will explore the ultra high performance capabilities of the new IO Neo handheld console, specifically its ability to handle demanding games at high settings with locked frame rates. We will also delve into the use of dynamic resolution scaling and its effects on performance.

The author begins by setting up their gaming rig with an NVIDIA GPU, which is capable of handling demanding games at ultra high settings. They start with Doom Eternal, a game that is notoriously difficult to run on modern hardware due to its high system requirements. The author sets the game to low settings with dynamic resolution scaling enabled and locks the frame rate at 60 FPS. Despite some minor dips in performance, the game runs smoothly at 60 FPS.

Next, the author attempts to play GTA V with a high normal mix, which results in an average of 68 FPS. However, if the author were to drop the settings down to normal, they would be able to achieve an average of around 78 FPS. The author chooses to leave the game at the high setting to demonstrate its potential for ultra high performance gaming.

The author then moves on to Injustice 2 with a medium low mix, which results in an average of 58 FPS. Despite some minor dips in performance, the game is still able to run smoothly and maintain an average frame rate of over 50 FPS.

For Halo Infinite, the author sets the game to low settings with an unlocked frame rate and locks it at 30 FPS. Unfortunately, this results in a significantly lower frame rate than expected, averaging around 45 FPS.

Finally, the author plays Forza Horizon 5 with high settings locked at 30 FPS, which is still able to achieve smooth performance despite being set to such high graphics settings.

**Emulation Performance on the IO Neo Handheld Console**

The author then shifts their focus to emulation performance on the IO Neo handheld console. They begin by testing PS2 games using PC SX2 with Direct3D 11, which results in smooth performance at 60 FPS and an impressive power consumption of only 15 watts.

Next, the author tests Wii U games using Cemu with Vulkan, starting with Breath of the Wild. The game runs smoothly at 30 FPS without any dips or drops in performance, demonstrating the console's ability to handle demanding games at high frame rates.

The final emulator tested is RPCS3, which is capable of running PS3 games with remarkable accuracy and smoothness. However, the author notes that there are a few minor settings that can be tweaked to improve performance.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the new IO Neo handheld console demonstrates impressive ultra high performance capabilities, particularly when it comes to demanding games like Doom Eternal and GTA V. While some minor tweaks are required to achieve optimal performance, the results are well worth it. The console's ability to handle emulation is also a major highlight, with smooth performance on PS2, Wii U, and even PS3 titles.

As the author notes, there is still more testing to be done, including battery testing and thermal testing, which will help to further evaluate the console's capabilities. However, one thing is clear: the IO Neo handheld console has the potential to be an extremely powerful gaming device that can handle even the most demanding games at ultra high settings.

**Future Plans**

The author plans to release a full emulation video soon, which will showcase the console's performance on various emulators and games. They also invite viewers to suggest specific games or titles they would like to see running on the console. Additionally, the author plans to conduct further testing on battery life and thermal performance, which will help to ensure that the console can maintain its impressive performance capabilities for extended periods of time.

As always, thank you for watching, and we look forward to bringing you more content in the future!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today i am super excited because we get to take a look at the all-new io neo retro power version for 2021. now when it comes to the original io neo i'm a huge fan of it did make big waves when it was released it's powered by a ryzen 4500u which does put out some decent performance but this new version here is actually powered by the ryzen 7 4800u so instead of six cores and six threads we get eight cores and sixteen threads with this unit and since this is the retro power version we do have a new color scheme here and as you can see this is very reminiscent of the old nes controllers we kind of have that beige coloring we've got the red action buttons but we still get all the extras like the analog sticks the shoulder buttons the triggers and all of the menu buttons personally i'm a huge fan of this i think it looks absolutely beautiful and when it comes down to it this is definitely the most powerful ineo that's been released as of making this video we have eight cores and 16 threads up to 4.2 gigahertz and i think this is going to put out some really good performance so yeah overall i love the design of the ineo and with this new color scheme i think it looks better than ever we still have the seven inch 1280x800 touch panel on the front here and it looks absolutely amazing when it comes to the button layout we're still working with the same design of the original ineo over here on the right hand side we have our a b x y we've also got our analog stick and we have these integrated hotkey buttons we have escape we have a task manager a windows home button and a keyboard button moving over to the right hand side we have another analog stick our d-pad we have our xbox button and our start select when you press that xbox button it's going to bring up the game bar if you're running windows 10 or windows 11. just makes it really easy to get some information on screen with the press of a button and of course up top here we have our shoulder buttons our trigger buttons we have a power button and volume control and when it comes to io up top we have two usb type-c ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack moving around to the bottom we get another usb type c jack and we have our dual stereo speakers down here so when it comes to the new io neo retro power plus or what they're going to be calling the ineo pro without this retro styling color for the cpu we have the ryzen 7 4800u eight course 16 threats we have a base clock of 1.8 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.2 built-in radeon 8 graphics at 1800 megahertz but we can easily overclock this and i've been able to go to 2000 on this unit here 16 gigabytes of lp ddr4x ram running at 4 266 megahertz you can opt for a 512 gigabyte m.2 or one terabyte m.2 ssd the screen is a 7 inch 1280 by 800 ips it does have wi-fi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 bell 10 a 47 watt hour battery with 65 watt quick charging capabilities and this is running windows 10 but you could upgrade to windows 11 or wipe it completely and install linux it's really up to you okay so before we get into some benchmarking some pc game testing and emulation i wanted to show you a new feature that is actually created this is known as the is space this does come pre-installed on the newer io neos and basically what this is is a game launcher if we hold the keyboard button it's going to bring i a space up or if we just tap it it's going to bring up our quick settings and from here we can actually change how the fan performs we can change the brightness the volume and we can set the tdp on this cpu from 5 watts up to 20 but there are other applications out there that allow us to go a bit higher to get some more performance out of it but i think this is a cool feature that they've added to their handhelds so since this is a gaming handheld i want to show you how it performs with at least one game up front and then we're going to move over to some benchmarks we'll test out some more games and then test out some emulation but the first one i have here is forza horizon 5. all right so here it is and i am extremely impressed at how this performs now i did overclock that gpu to 2000 megahertz and i'm running the cpu at 30 watts right now we have a low medium mix and to tell you the truth most of this is at low but i do have the new resolution scaling settings set to quality which definitely makes a difference we're only at 1280 by 800 because that's the resolution of the screen but with it set up like this i'm getting an average of 73 fps with forza horizon 5. now if you don't mind running this game at 30 fps you can actually go up to high and by the end of this video i'll show you that running but personally the way i like playing this game is locked at 60 so from the settings on that 60fps i've turned a couple more of the options up to medium and with it set up like this it's actually going to draw a little less wattage even though i'm set at 30 watts and it's gonna keep that apu a lot cooler so yeah i'm really impressed with the performance so far we will get right back into some game testing but first up i just wanted to give you a look here i mean it's pretty awesome seeing a little handheld like this with eight cores and 16 threads we've also got that 16 gigabytes of lpddr4x at 4266 and the built-in radeon graphics like i mentioned this can be overclocked and i have overclocked the gpu so if we run a stress test real quick here we'll go to sensors you'll see we're at 2 000 megahertz instead of 1800 to tell you the truth i haven't tried to go any higher than this there's a chance we could go up to 21 but i think this is a real nice sweet spot here it's not a huge overclock but it will definitely help out now when it comes to the ispace give you a closer look here we've got that fan we can change we can go to savings is a lower rpm on the fan or we could go to wild which does take it up now for custom we have 5 watts we also have 11 watts 15 and 20 watts when playing indie games i would go with around 11 watts maybe even some stuff will get by with 5 watts this is really going to save the battery once you start getting in the 20 and 30 watt range it really does open up this 4 800 u and right now i wanted to show you what i'm set at so i personally use something called amd apu tuning utility i've done a video on this showing you how to get it set up we can overclock the gpu from here and we can also set up pre-made presets from the ryzen 2000 up to the 5000 i've got this set pretty high but i wanted to see if we could even do it so i've got my cpu wattage on screen right here i'm going to run prime95 this is going to be the maximum power and heat stress test hit this so we're sitting around 45 watts with this and this is actually pretty awesome i'm not sure what magic they're working in the bios here but when it comes to the 4800u this is some of the highest wattage i've been able to see pull out of this little apu and when it's set up like this we can get a really good clock on the cpu and that gpu is also going to stay at its maximum clock which just happens to be 2 000 megahertz with the way i have it set up right now you're not going to get much battery life at all at 45 watts i would recommend 20 to 25 but i just wanted to see what we could go to and 45 looks to be about the maximum and you can see that cpu is hitting 95 right now so you really don't want to run it there but i wanted to see if we could even take it up all right so the first thing i always do with these apus is run some benchmarks we're at 30 watts here with all the benchmarks you're gonna see geekbench 5 1173 single 7285 multi looking really good here next up we have 3d mark night raid total score 15 569 and just for reference on the original i neo with the 4500 u we got 11 444. next we have fire strike with the 3806 and finally time spy with 1512. so if you were to take these scores and compare it to your gaming pc with the dedicated gpu these are looking really low but for a handheld running an eye gpu i think these scores look pretty decent testing out a couple more pc games here we have the original skyrim high settings it's going to run at 60 and we're only pulling 20 watts from that apu it's looking really good i did try ultra settings but i had a few dips down to 57. if you can handle that then you can run this at ultra but i dropped it down to high to keep that steady 60. next up we have doom eternal and this is just one of those games that's really hard on these igpus we're at 1280x800 because that's the io neo screen resolution low settings and i do have dynamic resolution scale going it's trying its hardest to keep it at that 60 mark but we do get some dips moving back over to the built-in screen here's gta 5 with a high normal mix i got an average of 68 fps out of this one and if you just dropped it down to normal you could get an average of around 78 but i left it here because it is definitely playable checking out injustice 2 with a medium low mix i should have probably dropped everything down the low because we do have a few dips down to 58 but then again if that fps counter wasn't on screen i'd probably never notice it i also wanted to check out some halo infinite here we are low settings with an unlocked frame rate now unfortunately we're not going to hit 60 with this one at least not yet maybe some optimizations down the road with the game itself will allow us to do that but for right now your best bet would be set this to low lock it at 30 and play away it would be nice to be running this at 60 but unfortunately it's just not going to allow us to do that right now and i had to come back to forza horizon 5. i wanted to show you this at high settings locked at 30. it's pretty amazing that we're able to do this now we're not going to do 60 at high settings but if we go in here you can see we are at high and i'm actually going to take this resolution scaling from high to ultra now remember at the beginning of the video low medium mix we can do 60 we can do over 60 with it but if you want to go up to high with that resolution scale set to ultra locking it at 30 will work now it's time to check out a little bit of emulation performance and so far so good i will have a full emulation video coming up soon so keep an eye on the channel but i just wanted to give you a quick idea of how this is going to perform so first up we have ps2 using pc sx2 directx 11 back in and as you can see it's running at 60 and we're only pulling about 15 watts from that apu next up we have wii u using cemu vulcan back in breath of the wild we're set to 30 here and i haven't noticed it dipped down below 30 at all this is really great performance now there's a chance we could do 60 with this if we drop the resolution of the game down just a bit but we're at 720p right now in my full emulation test we will check that out just to see if it's possible i know some wii u games will be able to be played at 60 but this one might be pushing it a bit and the final emulator i wanted to test at least for this video was rpcs3 the ps3 emulator vulcan back in skate 3 running really really well but every once in a while i do notice a few dips here and there there are a few settings that i could tweak in my next video we'll take a look at that but overall i gotta say performance with ps3 right now is looking great on this handheld so the way it's looking right now the new io neo powered by the 4800u is doing a great job i'm really glad that they were able to get that tdp up enough so we could run a decent clock on the cpu and our maximum clock on the gpu and as you saw in this video it is quite possible to overclock the gpu by a little bit and uh in my next video i will try to take it up a bit higher we'll go with docked mode at 45 watts but this thing will get hot at 45 watts i mean i definitely expect it to but i still want to see what kind of performance we can pull out of this thing overall i'm very impressed with this new version but i still have a lot of testing to do i will have a couple more videos coming up like a full emulation video so if there's anything you want to see running on this let me know in the comments below and of course i want to get some battery testing and some thermal testing out of the way this weekend so i'll be messing around with this quite a bit if there's anything you want to see running at all on this be it emulation or pc gaming let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today i am super excited because we get to take a look at the all-new io neo retro power version for 2021. now when it comes to the original io neo i'm a huge fan of it did make big waves when it was released it's powered by a ryzen 4500u which does put out some decent performance but this new version here is actually powered by the ryzen 7 4800u so instead of six cores and six threads we get eight cores and sixteen threads with this unit and since this is the retro power version we do have a new color scheme here and as you can see this is very reminiscent of the old nes controllers we kind of have that beige coloring we've got the red action buttons but we still get all the extras like the analog sticks the shoulder buttons the triggers and all of the menu buttons personally i'm a huge fan of this i think it looks absolutely beautiful and when it comes down to it this is definitely the most powerful ineo that's been released as of making this video we have eight cores and 16 threads up to 4.2 gigahertz and i think this is going to put out some really good performance so yeah overall i love the design of the ineo and with this new color scheme i think it looks better than ever we still have the seven inch 1280x800 touch panel on the front here and it looks absolutely amazing when it comes to the button layout we're still working with the same design of the original ineo over here on the right hand side we have our a b x y we've also got our analog stick and we have these integrated hotkey buttons we have escape we have a task manager a windows home button and a keyboard button moving over to the right hand side we have another analog stick our d-pad we have our xbox button and our start select when you press that xbox button it's going to bring up the game bar if you're running windows 10 or windows 11. just makes it really easy to get some information on screen with the press of a button and of course up top here we have our shoulder buttons our trigger buttons we have a power button and volume control and when it comes to io up top we have two usb type-c ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack moving around to the bottom we get another usb type c jack and we have our dual stereo speakers down here so when it comes to the new io neo retro power plus or what they're going to be calling the ineo pro without this retro styling color for the cpu we have the ryzen 7 4800u eight course 16 threats we have a base clock of 1.8 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.2 built-in radeon 8 graphics at 1800 megahertz but we can easily overclock this and i've been able to go to 2000 on this unit here 16 gigabytes of lp ddr4x ram running at 4 266 megahertz you can opt for a 512 gigabyte m.2 or one terabyte m.2 ssd the screen is a 7 inch 1280 by 800 ips it does have wi-fi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 bell 10 a 47 watt hour battery with 65 watt quick charging capabilities and this is running windows 10 but you could upgrade to windows 11 or wipe it completely and install linux it's really up to you okay so before we get into some benchmarking some pc game testing and emulation i wanted to show you a new feature that is actually created this is known as the is space this does come pre-installed on the newer io neos and basically what this is is a game launcher if we hold the keyboard button it's going to bring i a space up or if we just tap it it's going to bring up our quick settings and from here we can actually change how the fan performs we can change the brightness the volume and we can set the tdp on this cpu from 5 watts up to 20 but there are other applications out there that allow us to go a bit higher to get some more performance out of it but i think this is a cool feature that they've added to their handhelds so since this is a gaming handheld i want to show you how it performs with at least one game up front and then we're going to move over to some benchmarks we'll test out some more games and then test out some emulation but the first one i have here is forza horizon 5. all right so here it is and i am extremely impressed at how this performs now i did overclock that gpu to 2000 megahertz and i'm running the cpu at 30 watts right now we have a low medium mix and to tell you the truth most of this is at low but i do have the new resolution scaling settings set to quality which definitely makes a difference we're only at 1280 by 800 because that's the resolution of the screen but with it set up like this i'm getting an average of 73 fps with forza horizon 5. now if you don't mind running this game at 30 fps you can actually go up to high and by the end of this video i'll show you that running but personally the way i like playing this game is locked at 60 so from the settings on that 60fps i've turned a couple more of the options up to medium and with it set up like this it's actually going to draw a little less wattage even though i'm set at 30 watts and it's gonna keep that apu a lot cooler so yeah i'm really impressed with the performance so far we will get right back into some game testing but first up i just wanted to give you a look here i mean it's pretty awesome seeing a little handheld like this with eight cores and 16 threads we've also got that 16 gigabytes of lpddr4x at 4266 and the built-in radeon graphics like i mentioned this can be overclocked and i have overclocked the gpu so if we run a stress test real quick here we'll go to sensors you'll see we're at 2 000 megahertz instead of 1800 to tell you the truth i haven't tried to go any higher than this there's a chance we could go up to 21 but i think this is a real nice sweet spot here it's not a huge overclock but it will definitely help out now when it comes to the ispace give you a closer look here we've got that fan we can change we can go to savings is a lower rpm on the fan or we could go to wild which does take it up now for custom we have 5 watts we also have 11 watts 15 and 20 watts when playing indie games i would go with around 11 watts maybe even some stuff will get by with 5 watts this is really going to save the battery once you start getting in the 20 and 30 watt range it really does open up this 4 800 u and right now i wanted to show you what i'm set at so i personally use something called amd apu tuning utility i've done a video on this showing you how to get it set up we can overclock the gpu from here and we can also set up pre-made presets from the ryzen 2000 up to the 5000 i've got this set pretty high but i wanted to see if we could even do it so i've got my cpu wattage on screen right here i'm going to run prime95 this is going to be the maximum power and heat stress test hit this so we're sitting around 45 watts with this and this is actually pretty awesome i'm not sure what magic they're working in the bios here but when it comes to the 4800u this is some of the highest wattage i've been able to see pull out of this little apu and when it's set up like this we can get a really good clock on the cpu and that gpu is also going to stay at its maximum clock which just happens to be 2 000 megahertz with the way i have it set up right now you're not going to get much battery life at all at 45 watts i would recommend 20 to 25 but i just wanted to see what we could go to and 45 looks to be about the maximum and you can see that cpu is hitting 95 right now so you really don't want to run it there but i wanted to see if we could even take it up all right so the first thing i always do with these apus is run some benchmarks we're at 30 watts here with all the benchmarks you're gonna see geekbench 5 1173 single 7285 multi looking really good here next up we have 3d mark night raid total score 15 569 and just for reference on the original i neo with the 4500 u we got 11 444. next we have fire strike with the 3806 and finally time spy with 1512. so if you were to take these scores and compare it to your gaming pc with the dedicated gpu these are looking really low but for a handheld running an eye gpu i think these scores look pretty decent testing out a couple more pc games here we have the original skyrim high settings it's going to run at 60 and we're only pulling 20 watts from that apu it's looking really good i did try ultra settings but i had a few dips down to 57. if you can handle that then you can run this at ultra but i dropped it down to high to keep that steady 60. next up we have doom eternal and this is just one of those games that's really hard on these igpus we're at 1280x800 because that's the io neo screen resolution low settings and i do have dynamic resolution scale going it's trying its hardest to keep it at that 60 mark but we do get some dips moving back over to the built-in screen here's gta 5 with a high normal mix i got an average of 68 fps out of this one and if you just dropped it down to normal you could get an average of around 78 but i left it here because it is definitely playable checking out injustice 2 with a medium low mix i should have probably dropped everything down the low because we do have a few dips down to 58 but then again if that fps counter wasn't on screen i'd probably never notice it i also wanted to check out some halo infinite here we are low settings with an unlocked frame rate now unfortunately we're not going to hit 60 with this one at least not yet maybe some optimizations down the road with the game itself will allow us to do that but for right now your best bet would be set this to low lock it at 30 and play away it would be nice to be running this at 60 but unfortunately it's just not going to allow us to do that right now and i had to come back to forza horizon 5. i wanted to show you this at high settings locked at 30. it's pretty amazing that we're able to do this now we're not going to do 60 at high settings but if we go in here you can see we are at high and i'm actually going to take this resolution scaling from high to ultra now remember at the beginning of the video low medium mix we can do 60 we can do over 60 with it but if you want to go up to high with that resolution scale set to ultra locking it at 30 will work now it's time to check out a little bit of emulation performance and so far so good i will have a full emulation video coming up soon so keep an eye on the channel but i just wanted to give you a quick idea of how this is going to perform so first up we have ps2 using pc sx2 directx 11 back in and as you can see it's running at 60 and we're only pulling about 15 watts from that apu next up we have wii u using cemu vulcan back in breath of the wild we're set to 30 here and i haven't noticed it dipped down below 30 at all this is really great performance now there's a chance we could do 60 with this if we drop the resolution of the game down just a bit but we're at 720p right now in my full emulation test we will check that out just to see if it's possible i know some wii u games will be able to be played at 60 but this one might be pushing it a bit and the final emulator i wanted to test at least for this video was rpcs3 the ps3 emulator vulcan back in skate 3 running really really well but every once in a while i do notice a few dips here and there there are a few settings that i could tweak in my next video we'll take a look at that but overall i gotta say performance with ps3 right now is looking great on this handheld so the way it's looking right now the new io neo powered by the 4800u is doing a great job i'm really glad that they were able to get that tdp up enough so we could run a decent clock on the cpu and our maximum clock on the gpu and as you saw in this video it is quite possible to overclock the gpu by a little bit and uh in my next video i will try to take it up a bit higher we'll go with docked mode at 45 watts but this thing will get hot at 45 watts i mean i definitely expect it to but i still want to see what kind of performance we can pull out of this thing overall i'm very impressed with this new version but i still have a lot of testing to do i will have a couple more videos coming up like a full emulation video so if there's anything you want to see running on this let me know in the comments below and of course i want to get some battery testing and some thermal testing out of the way this weekend so i'll be messing around with this quite a bit if there's anything you want to see running at all on this be it emulation or pc gaming let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watching you\n"