
The 'Gainsborough' APU: Is AMD Secretly Testing the Steam Deck 2?
AMD's mysterious Gainsborough APU has appeared in driver references and shipping records. Could this Zen 6 and RDNA 5 chip power Valve's next-generation Steam Deck?

AMD's mysterious Gainsborough APU has appeared in driver references and shipping records. Could this Zen 6 and RDNA 5 chip power Valve's next-generation Steam Deck?

Valve’s new Pyrowave codec is taking a radically different approach to game streaming: spend far more bandwidth to cut encoding and decoding delay. The catch? Steam says you’ll want at least Gigabit Ethernet to make the experiment worthwhile.

Late night supply chain leaks are pointing toward a radically different Steam Deck 2, with Valve reportedly moving away from its custom Aerith architecture in favor of a much more powerful AMD Z2 Extreme class APU. If the reports are accurate, the next Steam Deck could represent a much bigger performance leap than the original's evolution suggested.