AYANEO has just announced its new NEXT 2 gaming handheld powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU. Check it out:
The founder of AYANEO said that this is what the peak x86 platform looks like in a gaming handheld, with the NEXT 2 featuring AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU, while the company has been leveraging the experience it has gained since designing Mini-PCs using the Strix Halo APU.
AYANEO's new NEXT 2 gaming handheld sports what looks to be an 8-inch display, while the Strix Halo APU features the 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5-based CPU and powerful 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU. This is a big upgrade in GPU performance for gaming as the other gaming handhelds from AYANEO feature just 16 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU.
The new AYANEO NEXT 2 gaming handheld has been designed to overcome structural and thermal challenges of the past with some new innovations, with one of them being a dual-fan design, which should significantly improve thermal headroom for the high-performance Strix Halo APU.
AYANEO founder Arthur Zhang says that its new NEXT 2 gaming handheld has "breakthroughs in battery life and thermal design" with a high-quality built-in battery, which is a big differentiating factor from other gaming handhelds on the market. We don't know the size of the display, but AYANEO says it has an "exclusive large-screen experience", let's hope we'll have a 120Hz OLED or something similar (with a high resolution, too, 1440p would be nice).
The company hasn't said when its new NEXT 2 gaming handheld would be released, but GPD with its new Win 5 -- which is also powered by the Strix Halo APU -- will release in October, so we should expect a similar release window, just in time for the holidays, for the new AYANEO NEXT 2 gaming handheld.
