OnexPlayer X2 Mini Pro drops Ryzen AI Max+ 395 for 388, starts at $2,399 with fewer cores

OneXPlayer has launched its X2 Mini Pro on Indiegogo, listing the base configuration at $2,399. This is more than double the price of the Lenovo Legion Go 2. Upgrading to 64GB of RAM increases the price to $2,699, while the 64GB RAM with 2TB storage configuration lands at $2,799. A Liquid-Cooled Edition that connects to an external Frost Bay liquid-cooling dock starts at $2,459.99 and tops out at $2,859.99 for the highest configuration.

And that asking price doesn't get you the power the company initially promised. OneXPlayer originally teased the X2 Mini Pro with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, a 16-core, 32-thread Strix Halo APU with 64MB of L3 cache and boost clocks up to 5.1GHz. The product page now lists the Ryzen AI Max+ 388 instead, which cuts that down to 8 cores, 16 threads, 32MB of L3 cache, and a 5.0GHz boost clock.

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Both chips share the same Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with a 55W default TDP and a configurable range of 45W to 120W, so gaming performance should be largely similar. But going from 16 cores to 8 without any announcement or explanation has not sat well with early backers.

On the hardware side, the X2 Mini Pro features an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED display with variable refresh rate support, detachable controllers, a magnetic snap-on keyboard, and a user-replaceable 85Wh battery. Storage is expandable to 8 TB with secondary mini SSDs and microSD cards. The Ryzen AI Max+ 388 provides 50 NPU TOPS, contributing to a total system performance figure of 118 TOPS, which OneXPlayer is leaning into for local AI workloads alongside gaming.

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That said, Intel Arc G3 Extreme-powered handhelds are coming from the likes of Acer and MSI, with MSI targeting a $1,500 price point for its Claw 8 EX AI+. Early hands-on testing suggests competitive performance to Strix Halo chips at that lower price, which makes the X2 Mini Pro's positioning a harder sell.

OneXPlayer also showed off two additional Intel Arc G3 Extreme-powered devices at a recent event in China, the OneXPlayer X2 and the Apex Air, though full details on those have not been announced yet.