AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro Review – Great things come in (relatively) small Android gaming handhelds

We got our hands on the eagerly anticipated mini model of the popular AYN Odin 2 Android gaming handheld. In our AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review, lets see how it performs and compares with its larger sibling in our overview. In case you missed it, read our in-depth AYN Odin 2 Pro review here.

AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro Overview

We will start our AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review with an overview and comparison. The AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro measures around 7.7 x 3.3 x 0.76 inches (19.8 x 8.5 x 1.95 cm) and weighs 320g (0.70 lbs)

It is smaller in width and height but slightly thicker main body than the AYN Odin 2 Pro with its larger grips. There’s around a 100g difference in weight.

The display is a 5” touchscreen with 1080P resolution, compared to 6” 1080P on the original model.

Visually, the Android Gaming Console, looks very similar to the Sony Vita with the curved sides, though the D-Pad and analogues are reversed in position. I have to say the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro feels great in your hands, it is very comfortable to hold, and all of the buttons are within easy reach and feel responsive.

Along the top there’s shoulder and trigger buttons, a covered micro SD card slot, a Micro HDMI port for output to a TV or monitor, followed by volume and power buttons. The bottom has a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB type C port for charging and data.

AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro Technical Specifications

Next in our AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review we take a closer look at the specifications and run some of tests for the battery life, fan noise and temperatures.

CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 8 cores / 8 threads, (1x Kyro GoldPlus) 3.2Ghz, (4x Kyro Gold) 2.8Ghz, (3x Kyro Silver) 2.0Ghz
GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 740
DISPLAY	5″ Mini LED 1920×1080 16:9, 440 PPI, 1100 nits, 60Hz
RAM	8GB, 12GB LPDDR5X
STORAGE	128GB, 256GB UFS 4.0
I/O	1x 3.5mm Headphone & Microphone Combo Jack, Speaker: Dual Speakers, 1x USB 3.1 Type C, 1x Micro HDMI
COMMUNICATIONS	Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3
BATTERY	5000 mAh Li-po

In our tests running Antutu on a loop, the battery lasted around 2 hours 45 minutes which is quite impressive. This is at full load, so on average you can expect around 6 to 8 hours. We got 66 db fan noise on the highest fan speed setting, on average you can expect around 60 dB. And we measured around 49 °C highest temperature.

Android OS Overview

We continue the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review with a brief look at the operating system and included software.

The AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro’s OS experience is much the same as the Odin 2. It runs Android 13 and has a short welcome setup to get you up and running. It comes with the usual Google apps installed only, so you will need to install and setup any games and emulators yourself.

The AYN overlay still works great and lets you access commonly used functions for changing brightness, taking screenshots and other settings.

AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro System Benchmarks

As part of our AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review we have conducted some system benchmarks. We can use the results for their performance as well as compare them with the Odin 2 and other similar Android Gaming Devices.

Geekbench 5

On Geekbench 5 we get very similar scores between the two Odin 2 models, well within the margin of error.

Geekbench 6

And on the newer Geekbench 6, we again see a similar score between the two models.

Antutu

Moving on to Antutu, we see around 4% difference between the two Odin 2 models.

3DMark

And on 3DMark benchmarks we see almost identical scores on the Wildlife Extreme benchmark.

Overall on paper, the Odin 2 slightly performs faster, however you would likely be hard pressed to see any actual difference in games.

Android Gaming

As the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro is a gaming Android handheld we can of course enjoy some native Android games and test a few for this AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review.

There are a decent amount of controller compatible games or failing that you can use the built in screen mapping software to use the controls. We had no issues setting up non-controller supported games. We are admittedly not massive native android game players, but everything we tried worked great.

Emulation Performance

And we could not make this AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review without some emulator testing. The Odin 2 was a beast for emulation, supporting up to the now sadly departed Yuzu emulator. You can expect the same levels of performance with the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro, running just about everything up to the PSP era with increased rendering resolutions and graphics tweaks.

For PlayStation 2 we saw great performance, depending on the game you can increase the rendering resolution to 3X. With Citra we generally kept games initially at 1 or 2x resolution, depending on the game you can go as high as 4x.

And for Vita, we saw generally good performance at 1 or 2x resolutions, it mainly depends on compatibility of the emulator and game as this is a work in progress emulator. And last but not least Yuzu. Like the Odin 2, it can run low demanding or 3rd party games quite well.

In summary, just about every emulator works great up to the the very latest handheld, but don’t buy it expecting to play the latest games on Yuzu.

Final Thoughts

Time to sum up our thoughts for this AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro review. Late last year, we rightly named the original Odin 2, the King of Android Handhelds, and the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro model can sit side by side sharing that title. Both models perform pretty much the same, so your choice will be if you desire a large or smaller handheld.

The AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro Android gaming handheld is small and sleek with a decent sized screen for the overall size. Whereas, the Odin 2 has a larger size with more comfortable hand grips and a larger display. For me personally, the AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro is my favourite out of the two, but you definitely wouldn’t be disappointed with either!

You can learn more and buy both the AYN Odin 2 Pro and AYN Odin 2 Mini Pro at their respective URLs.

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