AMD has officially unveiled Ryzen Z2 processors for portable gaming consoles. The new generation of the Z-series will have three different processor architectures. It is reported by the resource Videocardz with reference to AMD.
These chips are designed exclusively for portable gaming consoles and are intended for large OEMs that work directly with AMD. Interestingly, each of the new APUs is based on a different architecture and a different chip. It is not just one processor with three different configurations of computing units.
The flagship Ryzen Z2 Extreme is an 8-core processor based on the Strix Point architecture with Zen 5 cores. It combines three Zen 5 cores and five Zen 5c cores. This APU includes 16 GPU compute units based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture, offering maximum configuration.
The lineup also includes the Ryzen Z2 and Ryzen Z2 Go chip. The Ryzen Z2 Go is a Lenovo exclusive designed specifically for the Legion Go S. This APU has only 4 Zen 3+ cores and 12 RDNA 2 compute units, which clearly indicates its budget orientation – budget gamers and systems that do not need the latest features.
The Ryzen Z2 APU is based on the Hawk Point architecture with 8 Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 computing units. This is essentially equivalent to the Ryzen 7 8840U, but lacks XDNA support, as none of the Ryzen Z-series APUs include NPU functionality.
The most interesting thing about the announcement is that AMD confirmed that Ryzen Z2 will be used in systems from ASUS and Lenovo. AMD also mentioned Valve during the previous briefing, but a Valve representative denied the information about plans to release a Steam Deck console with a Z2 APU.
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