The AMD Ryzen Z2 will provide the processing power of other kinds of games

AMD is following up on its impressive Ryzen Z1 chip, which launched the original ASUS ROG Allyand Ryzen Z2 at CES 2025. You can seriously imagine what it offers: More power, and possibly more battery life, but if you’re planning to wait for Valve to release a Z2-powered Steam Deck, don’t get your hopes up. above. Following AMD’s announcement, a Valve employee he said “there is and will never be a Z2 Steam Deck.”

The flagship of the Ryzen Z2 family is the Z2 Extreme, with eight cores, a clock speed of 5GHz max and 16 RDNA 3 graphics cores. The most powerful example is the Z2 Go with four CPU cores and 12 graphics cores. It can be a useful tool for cheap handhelds, especially those that show the potential of local games.

AMD didn’t have any metrics to share, but it won’t be long until we see the Ryzen Z2 in action. It will arrive in the first quarter of 2025 in the updated versions of ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. When Valve says it is trying to avoid the rat raceall the time leak near Steam Deck 2 indicate that another upgrade is on the way soon.

Update 4:00PM ET: Valve has reported that it does not work on the Z2-powered Steam Deck.