
Slower than the Steam Deck OLED – Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld review
AMD Ryzen Z2 A | AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU | 7.00" | 670 g

The AMD Ryzen Z2 A is a mobile processor for notebooks based on the Renoir generation. The SoC contains four Zen 2 cores (quad-core CPU) which are clocked at 2.8 GHz (guaranteed base clock) up to 3.8 GHz (turbo) and support SMT / hyperthreading (8 threads). The chip is manufactured in the 6nm FinFET process at TSMC and was presented at the beginning of the middle of the year for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld. The RDNA 2 GPU is simply called Radeon Graphics and offers 8 CUs. In terms of performance, it lies between the Radeon 680M and Radeon 660M.
The TDP is specified at 15 watts (5-20 watts).
| Codename | Renoir |
| Series | AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) |
| Clock Rate | 2800 - 3800 MHz |
| Level 1 Cache | 256 KB |
| Level 2 Cache | 2 MB |
| Level 3 Cache | 8 MB |
| Number of Cores / Threads | 4 / 8 4 x 3.8 GHz AMD Zen 2 |
| Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power) | 28 Watt |
| Manufacturing Technology | 6 nm |
| Features | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| GPU | AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU (200 - 1800 MHz) |
| 64 Bit | 64 Bit support |
| Architecture | x86 |
| Announcement Date | 01/06/2025 |
| Product Link (external) | www.amd.com |

Asus ROG Xbox Ally: AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU, 7.00", 0.7 kg
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