Valve: ‘There will be no Z2 Steam Deck’

When AMD revealed its Z 2 chip during its CES 2025 keynote, many believed that we would certainly see it show up in a fresh version of the Heavy steam Deck. Nonetheless, a Valve developer cut those reports short, stating: “There is and will be no Z 2 Vapor Deck.” This is specifically unusual considered that AMD itself implied that such a Vapor Deck would certainly one day come true.

AMD shared a slide that speaks about its brand-new Z 2 array and reveals 3 video gaming handhelds that use AMD chips– the Vapor Deck, the Lenovo Myriad Go, and the Asus ROG Ally. That alone would certainly be enough to provide people the idea that a Z 2 Heavy steam Deck (possibly a Heavy steam Deck 2 remains in the jobs. Nonetheless, AMD has in fact stated that the Ryzen Z 2 is “involving market from a number of companions– the Myriad Go, the ROG Ally, [and] the Vapor Deck.”

Whatever conjecture this might have stimulated was extremely short-term. Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais required to BlueSky to refute that such a product is (or ever will certainly be) in the works. Griffais also included: “Presuming the slide was meant to state the series is indicated for products like that, not announcing anything details.”

The Vapor Deck currently runs on a personalized AMD cpu with 4 Zen 2 cores, however both Lenovo and Asus use the Z 1 chip in their handhelds. Even the Z 1 was able to outperform the Steam Deck, and the Z 2 is anticipated to be a renovation; on the various other hand, numerous delight in the feel of Shutoff’s SteamOS, so it’s not a straight comparison.

AMD’s Z 2 is also a little an enigma now. We obtained some specs– which is more than can be claimed about RDNA 4– but there’s no telling how much far better these cpus will certainly be. AMD likewise assures far better battery life, yet with a higher TDP, that may be challenging to achieve.

We’ll need to see exactly how the Z 2 carries out once it’s out in the wild, yet something is for certain: It won’t be in the Heavy steam Deck 2