At the gates of the release of the Steam Deck, we cannot forget what its rival will be, which will use a SoC Ryzen 5000 and will also be able to run PC games. However, it seems that the Valve console will have no rival and it is that the price of the NEXT AYANEO It is much higher than expected.
The improved performance per watt of new architectures from Intel and AMD has made possible the emergence of a new form factor. Portable consoles based on processors for ultralight laptops that allow computers to be built in the form of Nintendo Switch style video game consoles and that we can take on trips to be able to play our favorite PC games for long hours of waiting and downtime. .
Among these devices, Valve’s Steam Deck stands out, but it is not the only one, since there are others like the GPD Win or the AYANEO NEXT, of which it has been revealed how much it will cost us and the news, honestly, is a pitcher of cold water for those interested.
This is the price of the AYANEO NEXT
As you can see in the image, it is excessively expensive, because the minimum is $1285 and that’s if you’re lucky enough to be one of the first buyers, because if you’re not, you pay $1335. Besides the most complex configuration with 32GB of RAM and 2TB cost $1,535. It is therefore more than clear and at a glance that the creators of this device have just shot themselves in the foot.
The reason? If we want to play PC games at this price, we can get a competitive gaming laptop, with both an AMD GPU and an NVIDIA GPU. And in case we are interested in a Steam Deck, the price difference between the most advanced model of Valve’s PC-Console with the base price of the AYANEO NEXT gives us enough headroom to make a good collection. of games for our Steam library. . And it is that the top model of the Valve console costs 679 $.
Its specs don’t justify it being so expensive
While the folks at Valve were able to get a custom APU based on a Zen 2 CPU and a much better integrated RDNA 2 GPU even than some models, the Ryzen 6000 for laptops. Which, combined with its 88 GB/s bandwidth with its LPDDR5 memory, makes the Steam Deck far superior in all respects to the AYANEO NEXT.
And it is that the integrated GPU in a Ryzen 7 5825U is less than being a Radeon Vega 8, the bandwidth with the memory is also and the only thing that the alternative to the Valve device would highlight would be in the storage capacity, being able to reach 2TB storage via NVMe SSDand as for the CPU since it uses one with Zen 3 with 8 hearts. This does not serve as a counterweight to the use of an already obsolete graphics card within the same SoC or APU.
