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Which handheld runs PSP?

PlayStation Portable (Sony, 2004) tested on 8 devices, cheapest first.

2 of 8 tested handhelds run PSP well enough to play, starting at $180.

1 of them hold full speed. Ratings come from 6 publishers who had the hardware; the comparison across all of them is ours.

Cheapest device in this data that handles PSP
Anbernic RG556 ~$180

Runs the full library well.

Every tested device

Miyoo Flip

Rockchip RK3566 · ~$60
Hit and miss

Weak, and it drains the battery noticeably.

Tested by: Retro Handhelds Online

Anbernic RG35XX H

Allwinner H700 (quad-core Cortex-A53) · ~$65
Hit and miss

Light and mid-weight titles run. Demanding 3D is playable but not clean.

  • God of War and Tekken 6 are playable with occasional slowdown in heavier scenes.

Tested by: Retro Dodo

Anbernic RG35XX SP

Allwinner H700 (quad-core Cortex-A53) · ~$70
Hit and miss

Runs, with performance problems and no analog stick to control it with.

Tested by: Retro Dodo, GBAtemp

TrimUI Smart Pro

Allwinner A133P @ 1.8 GHz · ~$70
Hit and miss

Where the A133P is pushed to its limits. Nowhere near full library coverage.

Tested by: Retro Handhelds Online

Anbernic RG40XX H

Allwinner H700 (quad-core Cortex-A53) · ~$75
Hit and miss

Works, with the usual sub-30 fps bottlenecks on heavier 3D.

  • God of War: Chains of Olympus and GTA: Vice City Stories drop below 30 fps.
  • Patapon and LocoRoco are more than serviceable.
  • The H700 has no active cooling and the back-right of the device gets warm under load.

Tested by: Retro Dodo, GBAtemp

Anbernic RG CubeXX

Allwinner H700 (quad-core Cortex-A53) · ~$75
Hit and miss

Some titles run, but this is not a PSP device.

  • PSP output on a 1:1 screen means heavy letterboxing on top of the performance limits.

Tested by: Joey's Retro Handhelds

Anbernic RG556

Unisoc T820 (1x A76 @ 2.7 GHz, 3x A76 @ 2.3 GHz, 4x A55 @ 2.1 GHz) · ~$180
Full speed

Runs the full library well.

  • Substantially better than the H700 devices, thanks to the extra RAM and the Android emulator ecosystem.

Tested by: Retro Handhelds Online, Retro Game Corps

Retroid Pocket 4 Pro

MediaTek Dimensity 1100 (4x Cortex-A78 @ 2.6 GHz, 4x A55) · ~$199
Playable

Runs well at 2x internal resolution.

Tested by: RetroResolve, Retro Handhelds Online

Reading this page

Devices are ordered by price, not by score, because the useful question is usually the cheapest thing that clears the bar rather than the best thing available. “Playable” is where most people should stop reading upward: past that you are paying for headroom and upscaling, not for the game running.

Devices absent from this list have no published PSP testing found. That is a gap in the data, not a verdict on the hardware.

Sources (12)

Every rating on this page traces to one of these. The compilation is ours; the measurements are theirs.

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