AMD announces Ryzen Z1 series chipsets for handheld gaming consoles

25 April 2023
The upcoming Asus ROG Ally will debut the new platform next month.

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Anonymous, 25 Apr 2023It's not an Ryzen 9 SoC.It is not indeed a Ryzen 9 SoC, but I do think the power efficiency will scale well on lesser core count (7945HX ran sixteen cores/32 thread while these new SoCs ran only four or six physical cores)

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    • 26 Apr 2023

    Won't be surprised if Steam Deck 2 will use this chipset, unless that is Valve wants to go ARM only for the next iteration.

      Dometalican, 25 Apr 2023Considering they used NVIDIA, I have no doubt they're ... morePeople really forgot how this won't work at all and carriers will definitely abuse the system to profit off people if the switch supported cellular

      Do people remember the psvita

      Also why not just use your phone and use mobile hotspot instead?

        iH8allFanboys, 26 Apr 2023Yes he also mentioned that it’s on beta drivers as well so ... moreDont move Goalpost you claimed otherwise and failed to back up your claims. Those figures are what we have now, also handheld like this will have lower perfomance than Gaming laptop. Rdna3 most perfomance they got from clock speed, so probably we wont get eve 10% perfomance increase in this form factor.

          Hemedans, 26 Apr 2023I never say there is no difference its just difference is m... moreYes he also mentioned that it’s on beta drivers as well so things could change. Just look at Intel and their Arc GPU. Plus in that same video, he installed ram that was faster than the pre installed one but still slower than the ram that was tested on the 6800u. So with faster ram and official drivers, we can get more performance out of it. Also, the 7840u can only have dual channel ram which hurts the bandwidth of the 780m and can’t fully utilize the power

            iH8allFanboys, 26 Apr 2023It’s is more powerful than RDNA 2. Their 7600S laptop GPU i... moreI never say there is no difference its just difference is marginal, if you have reliable source put it here.

            All 2 people who had Rog Ally said at same power Rog Ally is 50% faster than Deck, Ally has 12CU and Deck has 8CU. So 12CU one being 50% faster than 8CU show there is marginal increase in perfomance.

            Also Eta prime had early review of 7940Hs and it was 12 to 15% faster than rdna2.

              Hemedans, 26 Apr 2023Ryzen 5xxx isnt good benchmark because they didnt have Rdna... moreYou mean the 6800u vs 7840u? There is a video that shows how powerful the AMD 780m GPU Vs the AMD 680 GPU and it shows that there is very noticeable increase in performance, even on beta software

                Hemedans, 26 Apr 2023They wont say it because they use it for marketing? Or unle... moreIt’s is more powerful than RDNA 2. Their 7600S laptop GPU is on the same 6nm as the last generation and it has been tested to be as powerful as the top AMD laptop GPU from last generation, the 6850m XT. I don’t know where this lie that there is no difference between RDNA 2 and RDNA 3

                  Lovelandmark, 25 Apr 2023Comparing Z1 to existing AMD lineup makes the Z1 has simila... moreRyzen 5xxx isnt good benchmark because they didnt have Rdna gpu they had vega gpu.

                  Ryzen 6xxx series are the one which should be compared with.

                    Anonymous, 25 Apr 2023Where does AMD say that? I don't see it in the source ... moreThey wont say it because they use it for marketing? Or unless you believe rdna3 igpu is better than Rtx 3050 ti, or Rx 6600.

                      yld, 25 Apr 2023hard nut, apple's M2 is 2.5x to 3x better than Intel A... moreNo its not lol. If we're talking about desktop grade cpus it isnt, intels best and amd out perform apples laptop grade m2 SoC in single and multi core performance. (its just incredibly impressive what they have done with it considering its power draw). Even laptop amd and intel cpus are, at worst, on par with it just slightly higher power draw (but it is arm vs x86 and ARM instruction sets work differently). The big positive of the apple M2 is its unified memory with its theoretical higher bandwidth (like 400gb/s).

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                        • 25 Apr 2023

                        8.6TF is almost on the PS5 level. Its getting crazy and crazier.

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                          Lovelandmark, 25 Apr 2023AMD's Zen 4 CPU proved to give excellent results withi... moreIt's not an Ryzen 9 SoC.

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                            Hemedans, 25 Apr 2023Just to clarify Amd did inflate those figures, they use som... moreWhere does AMD say that? I don't see it in the source article.

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                              yld, 25 Apr 2023hard nut, apple's M2 is 2.5x to 3x better than Intel A... moreThe gaming performance of the M2 is quite poor.

                                Hemedans, 25 Apr 2023Just to clarify Amd did inflate those figures, they use som... moreComparing Z1 to existing AMD lineup makes the Z1 has similar perf as R5 5500U/7520U, which doesn't seem like a huge leap, but if they can extract that much performance using less power that would be great; the benefits of smaller fab node and newer architecture will come into play

                                  Nintendo needs to work on their CPU game. Tegra X1 is getting slower. Hopefully we get a 6 core with a base 1.6Ghz clock speed

                                    yld, 25 Apr 2023hard nut, apple's M2 is 2.5x to 3x better than Intel A... moreM2 gpu is just 3.6Tflop, it wont be more powerfull than rdna3 full 12CU, unless you mean those M2 pro and M2 max which use way more power.

                                      Anonymous, 25 Apr 20238.6 teraflops is what the switch 3 is capable of after 2030Just to clarify Amd did inflate those figures, they use something dual flop as marketing, but in reality its Going to be around 4TF, not much perfomance gain from rdna2 to 3.

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                                        Ghostygoo, 25 Apr 2023I suspect that's where this is leading. Goodbye Sony X... moreSamsung used amd gpu with exynos in s22 series which had issues with heat power consumption and optimization as only vulkan native s24 will have amd gpu apparently faster than 8 gen 3 in current leaks

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