Retroid Pocket 5 vs 6 (2026): 70% More CPU for $45

There is a specific cruelty in a product that ages well. The Retroid Pocket 5 arrived in September 2024 as the handheld that embarrassed everything near its price, and then it committed the unforgivable sin of staying good. So when the Retroid Pocket 6 turned up in October 2025 with a newer chip and a faster panel, it did not get to bury its predecessor. It had to argue with it. Two years of silicon separate these two devices; forty-five dollars separate their price tags. This review is about what that forty-five dollars actually buys — and, more usefully, where it buys you absolutely nothing.

A Two-Year Gap on One Shelf

Most generational comparisons are polite fictions. The old thing gets discounted, the new thing takes its slot, and the reviewer pretends the two were never on sale at the same moment. Retroid refuses to make this easy. As of July 2026 both handhelds are things you can buy new, at prices that are close enough to force a real decision instead of a shrug.

The RP5's September 2024 High-Water Mark

The Retroid Pocket 5 launched at $199 on a Snapdragon 865, a 5.5-inch 1080p OLED, and a Hall-effect stick assembly that made drift a solved problem in a $200 device. That was not a normal thing to ship in 2024. The 865 was a 2020 flagship part, but Qualcomm's flagships of that era were fast enough that a four-year-old one still walked through anything up to and including the sixth console generation. The RP5 was, and remains, one of those devices that quietly outlives its reviews.

The RP6's Quiet October 2025 Arrival

The Retroid Pocket 6 shipped in October 2025 at $229 for the 8GB/128GB model, keeping the exact 5.5-inch footprint and swapping in a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, LPDDR5x memory, a 6,000 mAh battery, and — the headline feature — a 120Hz AMOLED panel. Nothing about the outside changed enough to notice from across a room. Brandon Saltalamacchia, reviewing it for Retro Dodo, scored it 8.4/10 under a headline that does most of the work for me: the RP6 is, in his words, “perfect pocketable power, but undeniably boring.” He is right. That is not a criticism. Boring is what a mature product category looks like.

Why $45 Is the Only Number That Matters

The RP5 never got its farewell discount. It sat at $199 while the RP6 slid onto the shelf beside it, and then a global memory shortage — of which more later — nudged the RP6 up to roughly $244 street. Subtract, and you get the only figure that decides this review: a $45 premium for two years of silicon. The rest of this piece is an audit of whether that gap is a rounding error or a chasm, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on one question: does your library climb past the PlayStation 2 line, or does it stop there?

The Spec Sheet, Row by Row

Before the prose, the ledger. Everything below is drawn from Retroid's own listings and independent benchmark runs, not from a press release's rounded-up fantasy numbers.

The Full Comparison Table

Spec	Retroid Pocket 5	Retroid Pocket 6
Launch	September 2024	October 2025
SoC	Snapdragon 865 (7nm)	Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4nm)
GPU	Adreno 650	Adreno 740 (Vulkan 1.3)
RAM	8GB LPDDR4x	8GB / 12GB LPDDR5x
Storage	128GB UFS 3.1 + microSD	128 / 256GB UFS + microSD
Display	5.5″ 1080p OLED	5.5″ 1080p AMOLED
Refresh rate	60Hz	120Hz
Battery	5,000 mAh	6,000 mAh
Charging	USB-C (no fast charge)	27W USB-C fast charge
Weight	~280 g	~320 g
OS	Android 13	Android 13
Wi-Fi / BT	Wi-Fi 6 / BT 5.1	Wi-Fi 7 / BT 5.3
Video out	DP-over-USB-C, 4K@30 (4K@60 via dock)	USB 3.1 Type-C, 4K@60
Sticks / triggers	Hall-effect / digital	Hall-effect / analog L2-R2
Geekbench 6 (single)	1,176	1,985
AnTuTu 9	668,000	1,200,081
Price (mid-2026)	$199	$244

What the Spec Sheet Hides

Two rows here matter more than their neighbors, and neither is the one marketing wants you to stare at. The first is the GPU: Adreno 650 to Adreno 740 is a bigger real-world jump than the CPU line implies, because emulation of the hard systems — GameCube, Wii, PS2 — is bottlenecked on graphics throughput and driver maturity, not integer math. The second is the process node. Going from a 7nm 865 to a 4nm 8 Gen 2 is why the RP6 can carry a larger battery, run a brighter panel at double the refresh rate, and still post better endurance than the RP5. Efficiency, not raw wattage, is the quiet headline.

The Numbers That Are Marketing, Not Facts

You will see the RP6 sold as “nearly double the power.” Read that with a raised eyebrow. The Geekbench 6 single-core figures — 1,985 against 1,176 — work out to about 69% faster, which we round to 70% and which is genuinely large, but it is not double. AnTuTu's aggregate does stretch to roughly 80% higher (1,200,081 versus 668,000), because that composite score leans on GPU and memory bandwidth where the newer part pulls further ahead. “About 70% faster on the CPU, closer to 80% across the whole system” is the truthful sentence. “Double” is a slogan. The distinction matters because it predicts exactly which emulators feel the gap and which don't.

Silicon: The 865 Meets Its Replacement

These two chips are separated by three years and one very deliberate design philosophy shift, and the way they age tells you everything about why the RP5 refuses to die.

From 7nm to 4nm: The Efficiency Story

The Snapdragon 865 is the SM8250 “Kona,” a 2020 flagship built on a 7nm process with an Adreno 650. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the SM8550 “Kalama,” a late-2022 flagship on TSMC's 4nm N4P node, pairing a 3.2GHz Cortex-X3 prime core with a cluster of A715 and A510 cores and, crucially, the Adreno 740. You can read the full lineage on Wikipedia's list of Qualcomm Snapdragon systems on chips if you enjoy watching a company rename its numbering scheme every eighteen months. The practical upshot: the 8 Gen 2 does more work per watt, which is why a device with a bigger battery and a hungrier screen still lasts longer.

Geekbench and AnTuTu, Read Honestly

A 70% single-core uplift sounds decisive until you remember what it's for. Every 8-bit and 16-bit system, every handheld through the Nintendo DS, every PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64 title, runs at full speed with cycles to spare on both chips. The 865 is not sweating at SNES; neither is a chip twice its age. The uplift only cashes out when the workload finally saturates the older part — and that happens at a very specific altitude in the console timeline, which is the whole reason this comparison has a plot at all.

The Adreno Gap Is the Real Story

Here is the part the CPU benchmarks undersell. The Adreno 740 supports Vulkan 1.3 and hardware features the 650 simply lacks, and the emulators that punish the RP5 — Dolphin for GameCube and Wii, the PS2 cores — are GPU-and-driver-bound. When Saltalamacchia reports the RP6 running GameCube “at 3x native resolution” and PS2 “at 1.5x and 2x native resolution,” that headroom is the Adreno 740 doing work the 650 cannot. The CPU gap is 70%; the felt gap on sixth-gen emulation is larger, and it lives in the graphics pipeline.

The Panel: 60Hz Meets 120Hz

Both devices carry a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED. On a spec sheet they look identical; in the hand they diverge by exactly one number, and that number is more contested than the marketing admits.

Both Are AMOLED — Only One Is 120Hz

An AMOLED panel emits light per-pixel, so a black pixel is off, not dimmed — the contrast ratio is effectively infinite, and that is a real, visible thing on a device you hold ten inches from your face. Both handhelds have this. Saltalamacchia called the RP6's screen “beautiful … one I simply cannot fault,” and noted a 5.5-inch AMOLED “makes the device feel incredibly modern.” Every word applies to the RP5's panel too. The only physical difference is the RP6 refreshes twice as fast: 120Hz against 60Hz.

Where 120Hz Actually Helps (and Where It's Theater)

Be precise about who benefits. A 120Hz panel is a genuine upgrade for the Android home screen, for high-refresh native Android games, for cloud and remote-play streams that can push past 60fps, and for the handful of systems that natively exceed 60Hz. It is theater for the overwhelming majority of retro content, because a PlayStation title locked to 60fps or a SNES game locked to 60Hz does not care how many extra frames your panel is willing to draw. We have argued this general point before in the context of monitors — that refresh-rate numbers get oversold to people whose actual workload never touches the ceiling — and it holds here. If your use for this device is a library of 60fps-and-below classics, the RP5's 60Hz panel is not costing you frames you were ever going to see.

Brightness, Black Levels, and the Simulated CRT

Where the AMOLED earns its keep on both devices is CRT shader work. Scanline and aperture-grille shaders live or die on black level, and an emissive panel renders the gaps between scanlines as true black instead of gray haze. This is the single most under-discussed reason these Retroids feel premium: they are the cheapest way to get a convincing simulated-CRT look without a CRT's weight, geometry, or 100-pound shipping problem. The RP6's brighter, faster panel is nicer here at the margins, but the RP5 already clears the bar. Nobody has ever squinted at an RP5 and wished for a worse black level.

Battery, Weight, and the 40-Gram Tax

This is the category where the two-year gap pays a dividend you can feel without a benchmark app, and also where the RP6 quietly asks for something back.

5,000 to 6,000 mAh, and Why It Nets Out Bigger

The RP5 carries a 5,000 mAh cell with no fast charging. The RP6 carries 6,000 mAh with 27W fast charging, and pairs it with the 4nm chip's superior efficiency. The result compounds: a 20% larger battery driven by a more frugal SoC. Saltalamacchia's playtesting landed around 4.5 hours of mixed emulation, six to eight hours of light systems, and 2.5 to 3 hours at full tilt on the RP6 — and the RP5, with its smaller cell and thirstier 7nm chip, sits meaningfully below that. For a device whose entire premise is untethered play, this is not a footnote. The 27W charging also means the RP6 recovers a session's worth of battery over a coffee, where the RP5 wants a patient overnight.

The 40-Gram Tax and the Half-Inch That Isn't

Nothing is free. The RP6 weighs about 320 grams to the RP5's 280 grams — roughly 40 grams and about 6% more device overall. In the hand that tax cuts both ways. For a two-hour PS2 RPG session the RP6's slightly larger body is more comfortable, more to hold onto, less cramped. For a coat pocket on a commute, the RP5's lighter, smaller frame is the one you forget you're carrying. Note that the screen did not grow — both are 5.5 inches — so the weight buys you battery and cooling mass, not display real estate.

27W Charging and Thermals

The 4nm process pays a second dividend in heat. The 8 Gen 2 runs cooler under emulation load than its raw power figures suggest, which matters in a sealed handheld with limited airflow, because thermal throttling is how a fast chip quietly becomes a slow one twenty minutes into a session. The RP6 sustains its performance better across a long GameCube or PS2 run. The RP5 is not a furnace, but it is an older node doing more relative work, and it shows more willingness to warm up and step down. If you are the sort who plays in ninety-minute blocks rather than ten-minute ones, sustained clocks are worth more than peak clocks.

Emulation: Where the Line Actually Sits

Everything above is preamble to this section, because emulation is the reason either device exists. And the reason emulation is a legitimate thing to build a device around at all is not folklore — it is settled law. In Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp., 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 2000), the court held that reverse-engineering a console's BIOS to build an emulator was fair use, calling the resulting Virtual Game Station “modestly transformative.” The emulator is legal. What you feed it is your problem. With that established, here is where the two chips actually part ways.

The PS2 Line: Where the 865 Starts to Sweat

Below the sixth generation, this is a non-contest. NES, SNES, Genesis, GBA, DS, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PSP, Saturn — all of it runs full speed on both devices, frequently at 2x to 4x internal resolution with shaders stacked on top. The PlayStation 2 is where the tectonic plates grind. Marty Brown of RetroTechTonic describes his RP5's PS2 output bluntly: performance is “inconsistent depending on the title,” to the point that it pushed him back toward original PS2 hardware. The RP6, by contrast, runs most of the PS2 catalog at a comfortable 1.5x to 2x — Saltalamacchia name-checks Gran Turismo 4 as playable with minor tweaks. GameCube tells the same story louder: the RP5 manages the friendly titles (Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, Melee), while the RP6 pushes Rogue Squadron and F-Zero GX at 3x, and makes Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy, Xenoblade, and Donkey Kong Country Returns genuinely practical rather than aspirational.

Above the Line: Switch, PS3 Ports, and the Legal Fog

Here I have to correct a claim that circulates in the marketing and even in some spec briefs: the RP6 does not emulate the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. RPCS3 and Xenia are desktop-class workloads that turn any phone chip, including this one, into a slideshow. What the RP6 does do above the sixth generation is two different things people conflate with PS3/360 emulation: it runs select Nintendo Switch titles, and it runs native Android ARM ports of games that happened to originate on those consoles. The Switch story carries the legal fog. Yuzu, the dominant Switch emulator, was shut down in March 2024 after Nintendo's lawsuit and a $2.4 million settlement; the scene now runs on community forks that carry the torch under new names. The RP6 handles a respectable slice of the Switch library through those forks; the RP5 manages only a handful of the lightest titles. If you want the real machine instead of the emulated one, that is a separate purchase we cover in our Switch OLED versus Switch 2 comparison.

How the Field Compares

The ceiling, mapped. Compatibility varies by title, core, and driver — treat this as the shape of the gap, not a per-game guarantee:

SYSTEM               RP5 (SD865)        RP6 (8 Gen 2)
-------------------  -----------------  ------------------
NES/SNES/Genesis     Full + shaders     Full + shaders
GBA / DS             Full speed         Full speed
PS1 / N64            Full, 2-4x IR      Full, 2-4x IR
Dreamcast / PSP      Full, 2-4x IR      Full, 4x IR
Saturn               Mostly playable    Full speed
GameCube             Friendly titles    Broad, up to 3x
Wii                  Hit or miss        Practical, 2-3x
PS2                  Inconsistent, 1x   Most titles 1.5-2x
3DS (Azahar)         Playable           Near-full, upscaled
Switch (forks)       A handful          Select titles
PS3 / Xbox 360       No (slideshow)     No (slideshow)
Native ARM ports     Yes                Yes, higher settings

IR = internal-resolution multiplier

Note the 3DS row runs on Azahar now, the successor project that emerged after Citra was pulled in the same Nintendo enforcement wave that took Yuzu. And note the peer set: neither Retroid is alone at this price. The nearest rivals set the RP6's value in relief.

Device	SoC / GPU	Display	2026 Price	The One-Line Verdict
Retroid Pocket 5	SD 865 / Adreno 650	5.5″ AMOLED 60Hz	$199	The value incumbent
Retroid Pocket 6	SD 8 Gen 2 / Adreno 740	5.5″ AMOLED 120Hz	$244	The 2026 default
Retroid Pocket G2	Mid-range Snapdragon	Shares RP5 shell	$219 (discontinued)	The stopgap that died
Ayn Odin 2 Portal	SD 8 Gen 2 / Adreno 740	7″ AMOLED 120Hz	$249	Bigger screen, 8,000 mAh
Retroid Pocket Nova	QCS8550 / Adreno 740	4:3, 1280×960	$229	For 4:3 systems

Getting any of this working is a project in itself — cores, BIOS files, per-system settings — and if you have never set up a frontend, our RetroArch cores walk-through is the shortest path from unboxing to playing. The devices ship capable; they do not ship configured. The catalog you're configuring them for, meanwhile, is documented better than any store page at places like Hardcore Gaming 101's PlayStation 2 archive — which is a more useful shopping list than any benchmark chart.

Five Ways It Actually Plays

Specifications are hypotheses. Here is how the two devices resolve for five different people, because the right answer genuinely changes depending on who is holding it.

The Casual and the Completionist

The casual player — weekends, a rotating handful of SNES and Genesis and PS1 favorites, no ambition past the fifth generation — should understand that they are choosing between two devices that will feel identical in their hands. Every game they will ever load runs flawlessly on both. For this person the $45 buys a nicer home-screen animation and battery they may not even exhaust in a sitting. The RP5 is the correct, unsentimental pick.

The completionist grinding a 60-hour PS2 or GameCube RPG is the exact person the RP6 was built for. This is where “inconsistent depending on the title” becomes a real tax on a real weekend, where 3x internal resolution turns a muddy PS2 JRPG into something that reads cleanly on the AMOLED, and where the larger battery survives a long haul without a mid-boss recharge. The completionist should pay the $45 and not look back.

The Speedrunner and the Co-op Pair

The speedrunner cares about exactly one thing the marketing rarely measures: input latency and frame consistency. For GBA, SNES, or PS1 categories, both devices deliver clean, low-latency emulation and the RP5 is entirely sufficient. Where the RP6 helps is the more demanding cores, where the RP5's occasional frame-pacing wobble under load can cost a run; sustained clocks and a cooler chip mean fewer thermal surprises forty minutes into an attempt. The 120Hz panel is mostly irrelevant to a 60fps game — do not buy the RP6 believing it lowers latency on an SNES core, because it does not.

The co-op pair passing a controller or docking to a TV should look at the video-out row. Both devices output over USB-C, but the RP5 typically tops out at 4K@30 over a plain cable and needs the official dock to reliably hit 4K@60, while the RP6's USB 3.1 output does clean 4K@60 straight off a cable. For couch multiplayer on a big screen, the RP6 is the tidier host. Controls are otherwise a wash — both carry Hall-effect sticks, and the RP6 adds analog L2/R2 travel that racing and shooter fans will notice.

The Commuter

The mobile player — the one whose entire use case is a train, a plane, a lunch break — has the most interesting decision. Here the RP6's advantages partially invert. Its 40 extra grams and 6% more bulk are a cost, not a feature, in a jacket pocket, and its raw power is wasted on the PSP and DS libraries that dominate short-session play. The one thing that clearly favors the RP6 for this person is battery: 6,000 mAh and fast charging mean fewer dead-device commutes. Weigh the pocketability of 280 grams against the endurance of a bigger cell and decide which failure mode you hate more.

Pricing, the DRAM Crunch, and the G2 Ghost

The prices in this review are not the prices this device launched at, and understanding why is the difference between a smart purchase and an overpay.

The Real Price Timeline

The RP6 arrived in October 2025 at $229 for 8GB/128GB and $259 for the 12GB/256GB configuration. On March 2, 2026, Retroid raised the 8GB tier by $15 to a $244 street price and pulled the 12GB SKU from guaranteed shipping. The RP5, meanwhile, has held at its $199 MSRP the entire time — and now trades used around $175. That is the arithmetic behind the $45 gap: not a discount on the old device, but a tax on the new one.

Configuration	Launch price	Mid-2026 price	Status
Retroid Pocket 5 (8/128)	$199 (Sep 2024)	$199 new / ~$175 used	On sale
RP6 8GB / 128GB	$229 (Oct 2025)	$244	On sale (+$15)
RP6 12GB / 256GB	$259 (Oct 2025)	—	Discontinued Mar 2026
RP6 12GB / 128GB	—	$279	Revived Jun 2026

The 12GB Model and the RAMpocalypse

The reason the 12GB model vanished is not a Retroid decision so much as a market one. AI demand vaporized global memory supply through 2026, and Time Extension aptly dubbed the resulting handheld-pricing chaos the “RAMpocalypse.” Retroid's own statement was unusually candid: “The recent surge in memory pricing has reached a level that we are unfortunately unable to absorb,” the company said, adding that “under the new supplier costs, we cannot continue offering the 12GB configuration at a reasonable price.” The 12GB tier returned in June 2026, but only by halving its storage to 128GB and asking $279 — a worse deal wearing the old badge. For an emulation handheld, 8GB is plenty; do not lose sleep over the 12GB. The storage matters more than the RAM, and both configs take a microSD card up to 2TB anyway.

The G2 Ghost and the Used Market

There is a third device that haunts this comparison: the Retroid Pocket G2, a mid-range 2026 refresh that borrowed the RP5's shell, swapped in a more efficient mid-tier chip, launched around $219, and was discontinued on March 16, 2026 — a lifespan measured in weeks. It was meant to be the efficient middle option and instead became the option nobody needed, squeezed dead between a cheaper RP5 and a faster RP6. We mapped its short, strange life in our RP6-versus-G2 breakdown, and the lesson for a 2026 buyer is simple: ignore the ghost, and if the RP5 is your pick, a lightly-used unit around $175 is the sharpest value in this entire class.

Who Should Buy Which

Enough context. Here are the recommendations, stated plainly, because a review that will not commit is just a spec table with adjectives.

Buy the RP5 If…

1. Your budget is capped at $199 and your library realistically stops at PSP, Dreamcast, Saturn, and everything older. You will never touch the ceiling the RP6 raises.
2. You already own one. This is the strongest recommendation in the piece, and I am borrowing it wholesale from RetroTechTonic's Marty Brown, who declined to upgrade with the line “my Pocket 5 still does what I ask of it.” If PS2 and GameCube performance do not actively frustrate you today, the RP6 changes nothing about your life.
3. You want the lightest, most pocketable option for short mobile sessions, and 40 grams is a meaningful number to you.

Buy the RP6 If…

1. PS2, GameCube, Wii, or Switch is the point. This is the entire reason the device exists. The $45 is not for the panel; it is for the Adreno 740 clearing a tier the 865 cannot.
2. You are buying your first serious handheld and want the one you won't feel pressured to replace in a year. At $244, the RP6 is the default, and HandheldRank names it the device to stretch for in 2026 for exactly this reason.
3. You value the whole modern package — the 120Hz AMOLED, analog triggers, 27W charging, and the best-in-class sustained performance — as a coherent premium experience rather than a checklist.

Buy Neither If…

1. Your library is 8-bit and 16-bit only. A $90 Miyoo or Anbernic does that job beautifully, and we have shown at length how, in that tier, firmware beats silicon — you are paying Retroid for power you will never summon.
2. You want desktop-class emulation of the systems these Androids can't reach. That is a mini-PC running Batocera or a Steam Deck, not a 5.5-inch handheld. Neither Retroid touches PS3 or 360, and no amount of wishing changes that.

Pros, Cons, and the Verdict

Two devices, one shelf, forty-five dollars, and a decision that hinges entirely on where your library tops out. Here is the accounting, and the score.

Retroid Pocket 6 — Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 clears the PS2 and GameCube tier the RP5 struggles with — 1.5-2x PS2, up to 3x GameCube.
• 120Hz AMOLED, analog L2/R2 triggers, Wi-Fi 7, and clean 4K@60 output over USB 3.1.
• 6,000 mAh plus 4nm efficiency delivers the best battery in the class, with 27W fast charging.
• Sustained performance holds up under long sessions; the cooler node resists throttling.

Cons:

• Roughly 40 grams heavier and 6% larger than the RP5, at a cost to pocketability.
• The RAMpocalypse killed the 12GB/256GB config and pushed the base price up $15.
• “Undeniably boring” — Saltalamacchia's words — a device that does everything and surprises with nothing. A $250 machine, he argues, “should have something unique.”
• Does not emulate PS3 or Xbox 360, despite what some spec sheets imply.

Retroid Pocket 5 — Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Still $199, and flawless through the entire sixth-generation-and-earlier catalog.
• Lighter, more pocketable, with the same excellent 5.5-inch OLED and Hall-effect sticks.
• The used market around $175 makes it the outright value pick of the class.

Cons:

• PS2 is “inconsistent depending on the title”; GameCube is limited to the friendly games; Switch is a handful of titles at best.
• 60Hz panel, no fast charging, older 7nm chip that warms and throttles sooner under load.
• As HandheldRank's Phil Retro puts it, the problem “isn't the device; it's the neighborhood it lives in” — it has been quietly cannibalized by its own successors.

The Verdict and the Score

The Retroid Pocket 6 is the better handheld, and it is not especially close on merit. It is faster where faster matters, it lasts longer, it charges quicker, and it raises the emulation ceiling into territory — PS2 done right, GameCube at 3x, a real slice of the Switch library — that the RP5 can only gesture at. At a $45 premium over a two-year-old device, it is the correct default for anyone buying new in 2026. That it achieves this while being, in Saltalamacchia's damning-with-faint-praise phrase, thoroughly boring, is a sign of a category that has matured past the need to be exciting. Boring is what “good” looks like once the arguments are over. Retroid Pocket 6: 8.5/10.

But the RP5 has not earned a discount to $199 by being obsolete; it earned it by being genuinely enough. For a buyer whose library respects the PlayStation 2 line as a hard border — and that is most buyers — the RP5 does the identical job for $45 less and 40 fewer grams, and existing owners have no reason on earth to upgrade. It remains, in a vacuum, “still a fantastic gaming machine.” Retroid Pocket 5: 8/10, and the smartest money in the class if you know exactly where your games stop. Pick the ceiling you actually need. Then stop reading spec sheets and go play something.