It will be the Aya Neo 2 portable console, does it beat the Steam Deck?

When it comes to handheld consoles based on PC hardware or computers in identical form, two brands dominate: Steam Deck and Aya Neo. Of the two and in terms of technical specifications, the Valve model wins by a landslide, but its rival does not want to be outdone with a new model. And it is that they have just presented their Aya Neo 2 based on the AMD Ryzen 6800U processor.

One of the pending tasks of processors with x86 register and instruction sets, those used in PCs, is what we call low power consumption. It is an outstanding task that has enabled ARM to support the whole range of portable devices through processors from different brands such as Apple, Qualcomm, etc. However, we are seeing very significant advances from Intel and AMD. While it doesn’t yet allow them to put a Ryzen or Intel Core in a mobile phone, it has enabled the creation of a new form factor: the PC in the form of a handheld console.

And let’s not forget that the computer is an excellent video game platform due to the catalog accumulated over the years and the fact that you can play anywhere, whether with a Steam Deck or an Aya Neo, is a significant change. Well, the successor to Valve’s console rival has appeared earlier than expected. Let’s see how it goes.

Aya Neo 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 6800U is the most powerful laptop

For the moment, the technical specifications on the Aya Neo 2

They are rare, but we can assure you that it is a leap for the less relevant compared to the first generation. If we talk about the CPU, the use of the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor increasing the cores from 6 to 8. In addition to using the Zen 3+ architecture which is more efficient in terms of consumption. On the other hand, the most important leap is made at the graphic level, adopting the same RDNA 2 architecture as its direct rival.

And how does Aya Neo compare to her rival? Well, very much in favor, since we recall that the CPU of the Steam Deck is 4 Zen 2 cores compared to the 8 Zen 3+ cores of the Aya Neo 2

They are a performance advantage. On the other hand, if we talk about the graph, its configuration is 12 compute units for the Aya Neo 2 versus 8 on the Valve console.

In any case, we hope that at some point Valve will release its Steam Deck V2 with better technical specifications than the current model. Whose advantage over its rival is for the moment the optimization of games for its platform and the fact of having much cheaper hardware for the public. This last point is for us the Achilles heel of the current Aya Neo, it is that they are too expensive despite being exceptional machines for what they are used for. Everything therefore indicates that the Aya Neo 2 is going to cost a whole salary, even if we do not know the price at the moment.