The announcement of AYA Neo on Twitter unleashed speculation by all users related to portable consoles and also from the industry, mainly because it was known that AMD was going to present its new APU. They delayed the presentation date to postpone it last night and after those of Lisa Su, which set fire to the rumors of a Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt APU and after the presentation of their console AYA Neo Next… Disappointment.
Why generate an unnecessary “hype” that raises such a degree of expectation if then you cannot fulfill it? It is not that they were lying, it is not that objective data was given, but what the company itself implied knowing that the rumors were focused on Rembrandt as architecture was not really to be intelligent, because we all went to think about the best and reality has ended up not being up to par.
AYA Neo Next, no sign of Rembrandt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqoE_VBiUas
What is presented is not that it is uncompetitive, but it is undoubtedly late, bad and at a crazy price. The presentation video of no less than almost three hours leaves little to the imagination or doubts, so we are going to know in depth this console and its variants, because if there is something “new” it is its four versions focused on four audiences with different pockets.
First of all we will have a AMD Cezanne-U APU based on Zen 3, specifically a Ryzen 7 5800U vitaminized enough to be a console (there seem to be no technical limits on frequency and consumptions) that will run with its 8 cores and 16 threads at the source frequency specified by AMD, that is, 4.4 GHz.
Of course it is accompanied by a iGPU Vega 8 at its maximum allowed speed without overclocking: 2 GHz, so we will have enough power to move your screen from 7 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels with panel IPS, so in this last point there is no improvement compared to the AYA Neo 2021 Pro.
The APU itself is a leap forward in all respects, but it’s a far cry from the new Ryzen 6000Us unveiled by AMD yesterday, which has taken a lot of punch out of it.
Four versions: Next, Next Advance, Next Advance Signature Edition and Pro
All the versions that we are going to see also share certain improvements that we have not yet commented on, such as the Wi-Fi 6E with Bluetooth 5.2, the memory 4266 MHz LPDDR4X or the battery of 47 Wh as well as Windows 11. Therefore, the differences are in the amount of RAM and in the available storage, which will all be NVMe via SSD:
- AYA Neo Next: It will house 16 GB of RAM with 1 TB of storage priced at $ 1,265.
- AYA Neo Next Advance– Will have 16GB of RAM with 2TB per $ 1,365.
- AYA Neo Next Advanced Signature Edition: 16GB RAM with 2TB per $ 1,345. Apparently it is a limited edition of 300 units, hence its price and predictably its aesthetic differences.
- AYA Neo Pro– the most powerful version with 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage per $ 1,465.
The problem is not that this new AYA Neo Next does not arrive with Rembrandt under its belt, it is that for what it currently includes Steam Deck is still a better option because although it will have Zen 2 cores, its iGPU will be RDNA 2 with the support of LPDDR5 and even a maximum price of $ 649 in its 512 GB version, where it also comes out in just a month.
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