Handheld maker Ayaneo has announced an upcoming handheld gaming PC sporting a devoted GPU inside. The Ayaneo Next 2 will seemingly ship AMD’s top-of-the-line Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, that includes a Radeon 8060S GPU with 40 CUs.
The new mannequin can be one of many first common handheld gaming PCs to come back with this degree of efficiency. The GPD Win 5 has additionally been introduced, sporting the identical chip, however compromises by choosing an exterior battery. The Ayaneo Next 2 in contrast, will include a built-in “high-capacity” battery.
Ayaneo confirmed off the upcoming handheld’s inner PCB, sporting a compact laptop-based dual-fan cooling resolution, and a monster 12-phase energy supply design. The heart of the PCB homes the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU and its related eight LPDDR5x reminiscence modules surrounding the chip.
The clamshell has been up to date with an interface structure impressed by the Steam Deck, that includes joysticks and touchpads on both aspect of the display. The outgoing Ayaneo solely has joysticks on both aspect, missing pads. Other specs for the upcoming Next 2 are slim, however Ayaneo claims the console will boast an “exclusive large-screen experience,” “breakthroughs in both battery life and thermal design,” and the aforementioned built-in high-capacity battery.
All of those design modifications can be required to run AMD’s comparatively power-hungry flagship APU. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395, codenamed Strix Halo, is essentially the most highly effective x86-based APU available on the market presently, that includes 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 64MB of L3 cache, and a configurable TDP starting from 45-120W (the default TDP is 55W) on the CPU and energy consumption aspect of issues.
The 395’s built-in GPU (the Radeon 8060S) boasts devoted GPU efficiency, that includes a whopping 40 CUs working at 2,900 MHz and primarily based on the RDNA 3.5 structure. Rumors counsel the 8060S has efficiency capabilities within the vary of the cellular RTX 4060 or RTX 4070.
The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 was by no means designed to be housed in a handheld PC chassis, not like AMD’s personal Z1 and Z2 collection counterparts, however in some way, handheld makers similar to Ayaneo have found out a solution to squeeze the APU right into a handheld design that works. The Ayaneo Next 2 has already been delayed as soon as, because of design problems, exhibiting the additional dedication required to make such a tool totally practical. At the very least, it may be attention-grabbing to see what sort of battery life this highly effective handheld can ship when it arrives.
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