AMD unveils Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme chips for handheld gaming consoles, including ASUS ROG Ally
AMD has announced two processors to be used in portable gaming consoles. The chips are called Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme.
Here's What We Know
Both processors are based on Zen 4 cores and have RNDA 3 graphics, The Ryzen Z1 chip has 6 cores, 12 threads and 22 MB of cache memory. The GPU has four processing units and 256 stream processors. The performance of the graphics subsystem is 2.8 TLOPS, which is 7 times more powerful than the GPU used in the Nintendo Switch.
The Ryzen Z1 Extreme has 8 cores and supports multithreading technology too. The cache size has been increased to 24MB. The graphics chip gets 12 processing units and 768 stream processors, and performance is more than tripled over the Z1 to 8.6 TFLOPS, which is only 1.7 TFLOPS less than the Sony PlayStation 5.
AMD did not specify at what clock speeds the processor cores in the new chips run, noting only nominal heat dissipation requirements of 15-30W. The processors also support USB4 and LPDDR5X RAM.
ASUS ROG Ally will be the first gaming console with the new AMD Ryzen Z1 processor. It will be presented in May this year.