Last Updated on January 27, 2023 by Detective Dev
So yeah I think imeo knocked it out
of the park with a geek and with this New smart TDP feature we can get a lot
better battery life out of this handheld Hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime
pack here again and today we're going to be Taking a look at some emulation on the all-new
eye and Neo geek now this has turned out to be An absolutely amazing little handheld powered by
a ryzen 6800u and backed up by the Radeon 680m R Dna2 based eye GPU alright so before we jump into
some emulation if you're interested in checking Out my first look video we tested out a bunch
of stuff on this device I'll leave a link for That in the description but since then we actually
got an awesome new feature in ispace so if you're Familiar with these eye devices you know we've
got this eye button over here we can change the Resolution brightness and more importantly we can
change the TDP got a few different presets plus we Can go manually from five up to 33 at least with
the 6800u devices but we've got a new Mini app Known as smart TDP basically we've got an auto TDP
setting now on these eye devices and it works out Really well so this is an earlier version but the
way it works is we set our desired FPS I'm gonna Go with 60 and this will work within emulation
or PC games and once we enable it it's going to Monitor the frame rate of whatever we're playing
and it's going to adjust the TDP GPU clocks and CPU clocks accordingly and try to get us to that
60 FPS Mark without having to push a ton of power Into this and just wasting it now if you want to
disable it right now we do have to do a reboot but We can also go down here to the bottom and limit
our CPU clock up to 2300 megahertz hopefully uh We get a little more a couple more settings
here would be nice because there are some AAA Games that require a little higher clock but this
saves a lot of battery life now for instance PS3 Emulation with rpcs3 using something like Skate 3
harder one to emulate in the past I would set the TDP to around 30 Watts so it'll split up that
30 Watts between the GPU and the CPU with this Enabled I only need to pull 18 to 21 watts to run
that game at 60fps which is really really cool so With all the testing we're going to see in this
video I will have Auto TDP enabled and I do plan On make making another video testing out some PC
games with auto TDP because it really does help Out quite a bit I was surprised at how well it
works and keep in mind it's still really early For this application so it's only going to get
better over time but uh before we get into it Wanted to give you a quick rundown on the specs
we've got the eye and Neo geek 1200p Edition they Also make one with an 800p display we've got
the AMD ryzen 6800u 8 cores 16 threads boost Up to 4.7 gigahertz Radeon 680m igpu based on
our DNA 2 with 12 cus up to 2200 megahertz you Can get this with either 16 or 32 gigabytes of
LP ddr5 Ram but both of them will be running 6 400 megahertz Ram it supports a 2280 m.2 dual
sided SSD and I've got a two terabyte unit in This and we're going to be running Windows 11
in this video so with all that out of the way Let's go ahead and get right into some emulation
testing we're going to start off light here with
PSP obviously we've got that 6800u and and we
can run PSP games on this really well anything Under this is going to run at full speed we're
at 5x resolution right now Vulcan back in and This game is performing excellently this is one
of those that did run at 30 FPS on the original PSP Hardware you can unlock it from PPSSPP
if you want to but I just kept it at 30. Next up we've got Ghost of Sparta still at
5x Vulcan back in and if you take a look At afterburner you'll see that TDP fluctuate in
total system power draw is actually at the bottom This is uh what is being pulled from the battery
everything included on the handheld from the RGB To the screen to the stereo speakers and since we
have Smart TDP enabled from ispace you'll see the TDP on this thing fluctuate clocks on the GPU
and CPU also and that's because this game here You know in certain areas that does require
a little more CPU but when it comes down to It as long as the PSP game is compatible with
the emulator it's going to run it at full speed Next up we've got some GameCube emulation using
Dolphin Emulator we're at 720p right now with F-zero GX but keep in mind this will run at
1080. I just wanted to keep that TDP down And uh with smart TDP enabled we don't have
to push over 15 watts out of the CPU to run This game anymore in fact at 720p we're
sitting right under 8 watts for this one And since we're here with Dolphin I figured
I'd go ahead and test out a Wii game we got Tatsunoko versus Capcom and while this is
running we can also take a look at how well This d-pad works and I'm going to go ahead and
tell you right now the newer imeod pads via on The geek or the ine02 are my favorite d-pads on
the market right now these are some of the best That I've ever tested and mainly I use them
for fighting games but if you wanted to go With the platformer it's going to work
out really well very accurate but yeah Like I mentioned I love it for fighting
games it's got a really nice rock to it And I mean you can pull off your special
moves no problem at all with this d-pad Next up we've got some PS2 using pcsx2
with the DirectX 11 back in personally I prefer using DirectX 11 but you could go with
Vulcan if you want to we're at 1080p with Soul Calibur 2 and now Auto TDP is working great
CPU is pulling around 11 watts and you know With other games with these same settings it
might pull more something like God of War 2 I've actually seen it jump up to around 15 in
certain situations but that's really how it Goes with PS2 it just requires a little more
CPU and when you're doing upscaling you know Past native up to 1080P and even 1440 it's going
to have to push that GPU a little harder also Okay so I've just set the handheld stationary
to make it a little easier on myself we're Still running on battery right now if you take
a look at the bottom of the afterburner you'll See exactly how much we're pulling from that
battery 3DS has gotten a lot better on these AMD chips due to driver optimizations for opengl
with Citra we still don't have the Vulcan back in
But uh with these newer drivers even on ryzen 5000
we're seeing some really great performance out of 3DS emulation and we're at 3x right now opengl
back in obviously but uh some of the harder to Emulate games you may still have to drop it down
to 2X and even native that's just how it is with AMD and opengl right now with this emulator but
there's still a ton of these 3DS games we can Upscale the 3x and some even higher checking
out some Wii U emulation using simu where at 1080p Vulcan backend Bayonetta 2 and usually when
I test this out on the ryzen 6800u I set a static 15 watt TDP and get great performance out of it
but with this new smart TDP enabled we're only Pulling 11w from the CPU and we can still run
this at a constant 60 1080p I also tested out Breath of the wild and that's when I like to run
it 30 FPS it pulls up to around 16 Watts while Running it with smart TDP enabled and really
the same goes for easier to emulate PS3 games Using rpcs3 720p Vulcan Tekken 6 usually at
15 watts but you know I've seen it jump up to Around 13.6 with this game here when there's
lots of particles on screen so it's really Helping out and the one that really impressed me
was skate 3. so with this one here I usually set It at 35 watts and that'll give me a really great
frame rate throughout but at 35 Watts on battery You're not going to get much battery life out
of this thing at all now that's just 35 Watts On the TDP total system power draw can be up to
around 46 to 51 watts and that's coming from the Battery so you're only going to get what 45
minutes of battery life out of something at 35 Watts but with this new setup we're pulling
a maximum of 19 watts and I will admit I have Seen it dip down every once in a while to
around 58 so hopefully from within the smart TDP app we get the ability to go up to like 2 800
megahertz on certain games that would be awesome Next up we've got some Xbox 360 emulation using
Zinnia Canary and this is where I noticed a few Little issues with that auto TDP uh you can
see that we get those dips down to 58. this Is one of those games you know as soon as you
come around the corner it needs to up that TDP Really quickly and I think that's the issue here
so with Xbox 360 at least for the time being I'm Gonna go with the static TDP around 28 Watts that
way we can just kind of lock it right there at 60. And the final thing I want to test here was
some switch emulation using Yuzu we're at 1080p because we're in dock mode right now
bulking back in and this is Trucking through Everything that I tested so far obviously we've
got a few dips here and there those are shaders Caching in the background I probably should
have walked around a little more but you know I've tested this on other 6800u devices and we
can get some really great switch emulation out Of this chipset so running it on the ineo geek
is absolutely awesome so yeah I've been really Impressed with the ineo geek when it comes to PC
gaming emulation and just overall use we've got a Great d-pad here Hall sensors and the joysticks
and the analog triggers so we've got them there Too I personally haven't been able to test the
800p version of The Geek but you're gonna get
The same performance remember we've got the same
CPU so if you wanted to save some money and go With the 800p version you're going to get the same
kind of emulation performance we saw in this video Here which is really great for a handheld gaming
device but that's going to wrap it up for this Video really appreciate you watching if you're
interested in checking out my first look video Leave a link for that in the description
and I'd also like to know your thoughts on The ineo geek did you pick one up are you
gonna wait for ryzen seven thousand eight Thousand nine thousand let us know down
below and like always thanks for watching
