The next-gen of gaming handhelds is upon us - AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU features 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores meaning greater performance and efficiency

AMD’s caller Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU is rumored to characteristic 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores and 8 Zen 5 CPU cores - yet starring to greater capacity and artillery life for gaming handheld devices. It will go nan caller flagship APU for AMD among nan Strix Point APU range, pinch nan imaginable of caller handheld devices releasing from nan likes of Asus, MSI, and possibly moreover a next-gen Valve Steam Deck.

This is group to beryllium a awesome betterment complete AMD’s Z1 and Z1 Extreme chips, which are coming successful nan Asus ROG Ally X and MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld devices. There will beryllium 3 variants connected this occasion, dissimilar nan aforementioned first-gen Z chips, pinch nan caller presence being AMD’s Ryzen Z2G - which reportedly comes pinch 12 RDNA 2 cores.

Since nan Asus ROG Ally Z1 exemplary is surely overmuch little powerful than nan Z1 Extreme and much comparable to nan Steam Deck which you tin publication astir successful our reappraisal here, nan beingness of nan Ryzen Z2G spot according to nan rumored specs whitethorn beryllium awesome news for consumers connected a fund looking for greater performance.

What does this mean for caller gaming handhelds?

While location is nary confirmation of an Asus ROG Ally 2 (or immoderate handheld packing these caller Z2 chips) astatine this constituent successful time, each signs constituent toward a successor to nan latest and top handheld PC, nan Ally X. With AMD supposedly group to merchandise nan Z2 APUs successful 2025, nan anticipation of marque caller handhelds is high.

The Ryzen Z2G APU is simply a astonishing summation here, which intends we whitethorn perchance beryllium seeing 3 caller Asus ROG Ally models. Not only could nan pricing beryllium overmuch amended present pinch 3 options, but nan capacity summation complete nan Z1 Ally will beryllium clear to see, which only uses 4 RDNA 3 GPU cores.

If Valve’s Steam Deck successor is still a agelong measurement away, a caller handheld from Asus aliases different institution utilizing nan Ryzen Z2G APU will apt return a important leap complete nan celebrated Linux-based handheld, utilizing 12 RDNA 2 cores compared to nan Steam Deck’s 8.

Given nan ROG Ally’s history of mediocre artillery life earlier nan merchandise of nan Ally X, this could activity wonders for Asus’ adjacent procreation of handhelds, creating greater title successful pricing pinch nan Steam Deck. After all, nan Ally X is fantastic, but nan value tag is still excessively steep for immoderate imaginable buyers.

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