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AMD has officially revealed the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, and it’s the latest chipset from the company designed for handheld gaming PCs. In fact, it’s already being used in a handheld – the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X.
Microsoft and ASUS announced the two new handhelds during the Xbox Showcase on Sunday, June 8, and AMD officially unveiled its new chipset the same day. While the ROG Xbox Ally X announcement mentioned this new chipset, it wasn’t very forthcoming with any specs about it. AMD, however, goes a little more in-depth on it and adds additional information, such as core count, TDP, and more.
There are differences between this and the regular Z2 Extreme chipset. But there will be lots of similarities as well. The main difference is that the AI version AMD just announced comes with an NPU for AI processing features. It’s also listed as a Copilot+ chipset, so expect to see some form of Copilot integration on at least some of the handhelds that run with this APU.
The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme was not the only APU that AMD revealed
AMD didn’t just announce the new Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU over the weekend; it also announced a new lower-powered APU called the Ryzen Z2 A. This is AMD’s baseline entry-level APU, coming in below the Z2 Go that powers the Steam OS version of the Lenovo Legion Go S.
This should still be a decent chipset for handheld gaming PCs. However, it’s obviously going to be the one that provides the least performance out of all AMD’s current lineup of Z2 APUs. It has 8 GPU cores. It’s also built on the RDNA 2 architecture, just like the Z2 Go. However, it only has a configurable TDP range of 6W to 20W. So, it’s not going to pump out as much performance as other chipsets.
The upside to this is that it should result in more battery life for the handheld that uses it. AMD even labels it as the APU for “long-lasting handheld PC gaming.”
The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme, meanwhile, basically has all the same stats as the non-AI version. Including 16 GPU cores and a TDP range of 15W to 35W. It also has 50 AI TOPS according to the spec sheet. It’s likely that both chips will make their way into other handsets. For now, it’ll be ASUS’s two new Ally models that offer it.
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