Those looking to buy a handheld gaming PC powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chipset can now take advantage of sizable discounts on the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. These price cuts are likely in the wake of AMD's latest Strix Point and Hawk Point APU platforms, which offer much better performance than the Ryzen Z1's Phoenix architecture.
Launched in May 2023, the AMD Ryzen Z1 APU lineup consists of the standard Z1 chip and the stronger Z1 Extreme. The Asus ROG Ally was the first handheld PC to utilize these chipsets when it was released in June 2023, and the Lenovo Legion Go sported the same hardware when it launched a few months later. Since the Ryzen Z1 series is built on AMD's newer Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures, it's stronger than the Steam Deck's custom AMD Van Gogh APU, which used Zen 2 and RDNA 2. This power advantage helped the ROG Ally and Legion Go find favor with a lot of buyers who weren't quite satisfied with the Steam Deck's performance.
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