At the gates of the release of the Steam Deck we cannot forget what is going to be its rival, which will use a Ryzen 5000 SoC and will also be able to run PC games. However, it seems that the Valve console is not going to have a rival and that is that the price of the AYANEO NEXT It is much higher than expected.
The improvement in performance per watt of the new architectures from both Intel and AMD have made possible the emergence of a new form factor. Portable consoles based on processors for ultralight laptops that make it possible to build computers in the form of Nintendo Switch-style video game consoles and that we can take on a trip to be able to play our favorite PC games during long hours of waiting and downtime. .
Among these devices, Valve’s Steam Deck stands out, but it is not the only one, since there are others such as the GPD Win or the AYANEO NEXT, of which it has been revealed how much it will cost us and the news, honestly, is a jug of cold water for those interested in it.
This is the price of the AYANEO NEXT
As you can see in the image, this is excessively expensive, because the minimum is $1285 and that is if you are lucky to be one of the first buyers, because if you are not, then you pay $1335. Not to mention that the most complex configuration with 32GB of RAM and 2TB goes for $1,535. So it is more than clear and at a glance that the creators of this device have just shot themselves in the foot.
The reason? If we want to play PC games for that price we can get a competitive gaming laptop, with both an AMD GPU and an NVIDIA GPU. And in the event that we are interested in a Steam Deck, the price difference between the most advanced model of Valve’s PC-Console with the base price of the AYANEO NEXT gives us enough margin to make a good collection of games for our Steam library. . And it is that the top-of-the-range model of the Valve console goes for €679.
Its specifications do not justify that it is so expensive
While the people at Valve have been able to get a custom APU based on a Zen 2 CPU and an integrated RDNA 2 GPU much better even than some models, the Ryzen 6000 for laptops. Which in combination with its 88 GB/s bandwidth with its LPDDR5 memory makes the Steam Deck far superior in all aspects to the AYANEO NEXT
And it is that the GPU integrated in a Ryzen 7 5825U is inferior to being a Radeon Vega 8, the bandwidth with the memory is also and the only thing that the alternative to the Valve device would highlight would be in the storage capacity, being able to reach 2TB of storage via NVMe SSDand as for the CPU since it uses one with Zen 3 with 8 cores. Which does not serve as a counterweight to the use of an already outdated graphics within the same SoC or APU.
