AMD initially said they would come to the Steam Deck (and others) but Valve has categorically denied a Z2 Deck.

With Ryzen Z1 chips, AMD made it very black and white in terms of picking between a mid-range and a top tier APU. For 2025, Ryzen Z2 has three different versions for three very different target audiences.

AMD's hotly anticipated Ryzen Z2 range is finally here, and it'll start showing up in handhelds within months.

The Ryzen Z2 Extreme is what you'd expect from a refresh: a straightforward upgrade to both the CPU and GPU architectures of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Based on the same "Strix Point" architecture as the Ryzen AI 300 laptop processors,

AMD announced its upcoming Ryzen Z2 line of processors at CES 2025, with the halo Z2 Extreme sporting an 8-core, 16-thread CPU and a 16 CU RDNA 3.5 GPU. The other two models are a step down in various ways and full specifications aren't yet available.

CES 2025 hasn’t even kicked off yet, but thanks to AMD, we’re already getting a glimpse of what’s to come: the next generation of PC gaming handhelds. AMD announced that its hotly anticipated Ryzen Z2 processor is ready to rock after first revealing the chip at Computex last summer.

AMD's Z2 processors are now official - and include three architectures in one family: Z2 Extreme with Strix Point, Z2 on Hawk Point and Z2 Go on Rembrandt.