Officially announced during CES 2025, the Apus Ryzen Z2 line can be expanded to gain a model dedicated to cheap laptops based on Steamos. According to Leaker Hoang Anh Phu, who discovered in advance the existence of hardware, the mysterious model Z2 to revealed in leaks It will be based on the characteristics of Steam Deck himself.
The Valve device is based on a customized apu known by the code name “Van Gogh”, which seems to be adapted for use on other devices. The hardware features four processing cores and 8 computing units based on RDNA2 architecture – which, although already old, has become relatively cheap to produce.
The existence of the device helps to explain why, during the presentation of the Ryzen Z2 line, Steam Deck was listed as one of the devices supported. This led many to believe that the new Apus would be present in a second generation of the device – something Valve has quickly denied.
Ryzen Z2 line is getting complicated
As Videocardz notes, the presence of Z2 variation based on Zen2 architecture only helps further complicate the Ryzen Z2 line. To date, it already has devices based on Zen2, Zen3+, Zen4 and Zen5 technologies, as well as the designs of GPUS RDNA2, RDNA3 and RDNA 3.5.
Meanwhile it gives manufacturers various possibilities to build portables with different capabilities and costs, The situation can also help to confuse consumers a little. To date, there is no scheduled date for the release of Z2 A and AI Z2 Extreme models, but there is already indications that the new MSI Claw may be one of the first devices to adopt the second option.
It remains to be waited to find out which manufacturer can decide to adopt the Ryzen Z2 model with characteristics similar to Steam Deck’s. Given that the APU was made to run with Steamos, it would be quite interesting to see how a Valve competitor can deliver a very similar product, but that adopts other optimization solutions.
Fonte: VideoCardz, PC Gamer
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