AMD has recently revealed the Z2 Extreme CPU for next year's Steam Deck competition

The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme is the chip inside the Asus ROG Ally X, Asus ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go, and AMD will announce its successor, the Z2 Extreme, for future PC gaming handhelds in early 2025.

That's according to Digital Trends' Jacob Roach, who heard AMD's head of computing and graphics, Jack Huynh, say that AMD is aiming to hit the IFA stage in Berlin in 2025. the news was announced earlier in the year, but AMD declined to reveal more details today. The only thing we have heard is: AMD said it works with several partners, so the chip may have been in the hands of hand producers. 

This may be based on AMD Strix points; According to reports, AMDS Huynh also mentioned that he would play black myth: Wukong for three hours such as Wukong, but it is unclear whether this is just anecdotes or Z2 based on Strix -based Z2 Extreme Prompt. I'm not sure the degree of optimism of Strix. AMD proclaimed ZEN 5's performance in its Strix Point -Bearing Architecture, but did not say the news of increasing the life of the battery. While an improvement in performance can sometimes translate into an improvement in battery life, by modifying the chip for that purpose, AMD's original Z1 Extreme was pretty much just a tweaked version of the Ryzen 7840U laptop chip that really needed a lot of electricity to thrive. . 

Handhelds like the ROG Ally and Legion Go can drain up to 40 or 50 watts of total system power to play games that barely run on Steam Deck, but that means they completely drain the batteries in less than an hour. They couldn't beat the Steam Deck's semi-custom 15-watt chip or get anywhere near as much battery life in less demanding titles.

Finally, the AMD ROG Ally X forced its way to far better battery life by doubling the size of the package inside. But maybe AMD took a different route and made the Z2 Extreme a custom handheld chip? That would be exciting.