The Ayaneo Kun has a mode that delivers near twice the power of the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC

At 54W, the big boi of handheld gaming PCs is going to feature the most extreme docked mode of any such device.

It's not just a mode you can only pick while docked and plugged into the mains, either. Ayaneo has told me that"yes, 54W is a lot, and can even be used unplugged, but it is more suitable for plugged use."

It has even provided an expected uptime for the 54W mode when you're running it on the battery and is predicting around 49 mins of game time. That's not a long time, admittedly, but still shows what that 75Wh battery can do. Yeah, 75Wh—it's a battery that wouldn't look out of place in a gaming laptop, and takes up almost 30% of the entire volume of the Kun device.

Under a more traditional 15W TDP Ayaneo suggests you can expect well over three hours of gaming from the device, easily making it the longest lasting handheld. But, what sort of performance increase does that monstrous 54W mode deliver? Honestly, from the numbers Ayaneo has given up it's not a huge amount—in the three games it's tested you're getting between 7 and 14% higher frame rates. When plugged in, using it as a pseudo desktop PC, every little helps when it comes to smoothing out gameplay, but I don't think I'd want to ever run it on battery like that.

I'm also wondering about the sort of noise that thing will make in the ultra extreme mode. As it's a chonky 8.4-inch handheld there's a lot of space for significant cooling performance—luckily—and the 'KUNPeng' heat dissipation system has a hoofing big fan, but Ayaneo is still reporting the 54W temps as around 84°C. Compared to the 42°C of the 15W mode that's twice the heat.

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