Steam makes the deck look old
In September, the Ayaneo 2, a handheld console with Windows 11, will be released, which is supposed to technically surpass the Valve Steam deck. The manufacturer relies on a Ryzen 6000 APU and a Full HD display.
The Ayano team announced the upcoming product in a five-hour video. The main focus was on mobile game consoles Ayaneo Air and Ayaneo 2. Ayano Air is now being delivered to the first crowdfunding backers and media. With prices starting at around 550 euros, it offers a Ryzen 5 5560U, at least eight gigabytes of RAM and a 5.5-inch OLED display with Full HD resolution. However, the market launch of the powerful is for September Ayano d Scheduling and mass distribution of the handheld console will begin in October.
Significantly more powerful APU than Steam Deck
Ion 2 is a Ryzen 7 6800U, whose eight-core CPU is based on the Zen 3+ architecture and reaches up to 4.7 GHz. The internal GPU based on RDNA-2 has 12 compute units and clocks up to 2.2 GHz. Thus, compared to Steam Deck, the console has double the number of CPU cores and four additional compute units as well as a new CPU architecture.
Additionally, optional 16 or 32 GB LPDDR5-6400 memory installed, while the Valve console always has 16 GB of LPDDR5-5500. It will be for mass storage Up to one PCIe 4.0 SSD with two terabytes IPS displays measure diagonally seven inches And should not be in HD, but in between Full of high quality Solution and offer fairly thin screen edges.
By default, Ion will come with 2 Windows 11 Distributed, but alternatively SteamOS or Ayano OS Picked from. Prices are currently unknown, but the basic model will probably cost more than 700 euros.
High-end handhelds from Ayano later this year
However, the Ayaneo 2 is not the manufacturer’s top model. It should be by the end of the year Flagship called Ayaneo Next 2 Few of the specifications on display are clear so far.
The Ayaneo Next 2 should have either a Ryzen 6000 APU with a dedicated Radeon 6000 GPU or an Alder Lake processor with a dedicated Arc Mobile graphics card. The top model should probably cost more than 1,000 euros. As with other consoles, funding will come from crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
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