AMD Ryzen Z2 will power next-gen mobile gaming rigs

AMD is following up with the impressive Ryzen Z1 chip that powered the original ASUS ROG ALLYwith the Ryzen Z2 at CES 2025. You can pretty much guess what it offers: more power, and maybe longer battery life, but if you’re planning on waiting for Valve to release a Z2-powered Steam Deck, don’t get your hopes up higher. After AMD’s announcement, a Valve employee He said “There will be no Z2 Steam Deck.”

The flagship of the Ryzen Z2 family is the Z2 Extreme, which features eight cores, a maximum clock speed of 5GHz, and 16 RDNA 3 graphics cores. The less powerful model is the Z2 Go which has four CPU cores and 12 graphics cores. This could be a useful chip for inexpensive handhelds, especially those that tout game streaming capabilities via local play.

AMD didn’t have any performance metrics to share, but it likely won’t be long until we see the Ryzen Z2 in action. It will arrive in Q1 2025 in revamped versions of the ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. While Valve said it was Try to avoid the horse rat racefixed Leaks about a possible Steam Deck 2 It indicates that some sort of upgrade is on the way soon.

Updated at 4:00 PM ET: Valve has clarified that it does not work on the Steam Deck running the Z2.