AYA Neo’s Twitter announcement sparked speculation from all handheld users and industry as well, mainly because it was known that AMD was going to showcase its new APU. They pushed back the presentation date to postpone it last night and after those of Lisa Su, who set fire to the rumors of a Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt APU and after the presentation of their console AYA Neo Next… Disappointment.
Why generate unnecessary “hype” that raises such a high degree of expectation if you can’t fill it later? It’s not that they were lying, it’s not that hard data was given, but what the company itself hinted at knowing that the rumors were focused on Rembrandt because the architecture didn’t wasn’t really about being smart because we all went to think about the best and the reality ended up not living up to it.
AYA Neo Next, ni rastro de Rembrandt
What’s on display isn’t that it’s uncompetitive, but it’s definitely late, bad, and insanely priced. The presentation video of no less than almost three hours leaves little to the imagination or doubts, so we will get to know this console and its variants in depth, because if there is something “new” , these are its four versions focused on four audiences with different pockets.
First of all, we will have a APU AMD Cézanne-U based on Zen 3, in particular a Ryzen 7 5800U enough vitamins to be a console (there does not seem to be any technical limits on the frequency and consumption) which will work with its 8 cores and 16 threads at the source frequency specified by AMD, i.e. 4.4 GHz.
Of course, it is accompanied by a iGPU Vega 8 at its maximum authorized speed without overclocking: 2 GHz
The APU itself is a leap f orward in every way, but it’s a far cry from the new Ryzen 6000Us that AMD unveiled yesterday, which took a lot of oomph.
Four versions: Next, Next Advance, Next Advance Signature Edition and Pro
All the versions that we are going to see also share some improvements that we have not yet commented on, such as the Wi-Fi 6E with Bluetooth 5.2, Memory LPDDR4X at 4266 MHz or the battery of 47 Wh as well as Windows 11. Therefore, the differences lie in the amount of RAM and storage available, which will all be NVMe via SSD:
- AYA Neo Next: It will house 16 GB of RAM with 1 TB of storage at a price of $ 1,265.
- AYA Neo Next Advance– Will have 16 GB of RAM with 2 TB per $ 1,365.
- AYA Neo Next Advanced Signature Edition: 16 GB of RAM with 2 TB per $ 1,345. Apparently, this is a limited edition of 300 units, hence its price tag and predictably its aesthetic differences.
- AYA Neo Pro– the most powerful version with 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage per $ 1,465.
The problem isn’t that this new AYA Neo Next doesn’t arrive with Rembrandt under its belt, it’s that for what it currently understands Steam Deck is still a better option because although it will have Zen 2 cores. , its iGPU will be RDNA 2 with LPDDR5 support and even a maximum price of $ 649 in its 512GB version, where it also comes out in just a month.
Did this new AYA Neo Next die before it hit the market?
