TechPowerUp spotted the development with an AMD 'Gainsborough' APU having been leaked via OpenBenchmarking . It's an engineering sample chip with 6-cores (12-threads) and a base clock of 2.4GHz – but what links this to Valve's next-gen handheld?
What happened
TechPowerUp spotted the development with an AMD 'Gainsborough' APU having been leaked via OpenBenchmarking . It's an engineering sample chip with 6-cores (12-threads) and a base clock of 2. 4GHz – but what links this to Valve's next-gen handheld?
Where the sources line up
Well, it's tenuous, granted – so arm yourself with a pile of seasoning – but the word Gainsborough is the key here, as Valve has used codenames inspired by Final Fantasy VII for Steam Deck silicon before. Namely Aerith and Sephiroth, and Gainsborough is Aerith's surname, as well-known GPU leaker Kepler pointed out .
Practical impact for readers
Seemingly this Gainsborough chip was paired with 24GB of system memory for testing, although that doesn't necessarily reflect a potential upgrade for the Steam Deck 2 in this regard – that's a shaky idea given the RAM crisis and how long it might last for . All this means is that this memory configuration is currently what AMD or Valve is trying out the chip with.
Who should pay attention now
There are benchmark results here (of course, it's on a benchmarking site), and we get to see that this new AMD APU hits 3,508 points in Furmark at 1024 x 768 resolution. That's a bit faster than the Steam Deck which scores 3,323 (albeit at 1280 x 800).
What is still unclear
The five things that the Steam Deck 2 has to get right, half a decade after the original's reveal RAM crisis hasn't changed Steam Deck 2 plans but could affect launch timing Valve Steam Machine review Analysis: benchmarking clarification.
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