Sony PS6 Portable to beat Steam Deck 2 to market, leaker comments on performance

It is no longer a secret that Sony will be competing with the Nintendo Switch 2 ($449 on Amazon) with its own gaming handheld in the future. The most important specifications of the presumed PlayStation 6 Portable were already leaked last August, while the Sony PlayStation 5 has received an Energy-saving mode to simulate the performance of the gaming handheld, so that developers can already optimize their games for the PS6P.

The usually very reliable leaker KeplerL2 has now once again commented on Sony's handheld plans. According to this, the graphics chip of the PlayStation 6 Portable would achieve a nominally higher raster performance than the GPU of the Xbox Series S, and with active ray tracing, Sony's handheld should even be far ahead. Sony is said to be using an AMD Zen 6 processor with six cores and a modern RDNA 5 graphics chip with 16 compute units, which only achieve relatively low clock rates of up to 1.2 GHz in handheld mode.

By comparison, the Xbox Series S has 20 compute units with clock speeds of up to 1.56 GHz, albeit based on the older RDNA 2 architecture, which gives the console a performance of around 4 TFLOPs. The Nintendo Switch 2, on the other hand, achieves around 1.7 TFLOPs in handheld mode and 3.1 TFLOPs in docked mode. While the launch of the Sony PlayStation 6 Portable is expected around fall 2027, PC gamers waiting for the Steam Deck 2 will apparently have to wait even longer. This is because Valve's next-generation gaming handheld was originally scheduled for launch in 2028, but the DRAM crisis could lead to delays.