A new AMD Gainsborough APU, identified as a potential candidate for the Valve Steam Deck 2, has leaked on OpenBenchmarking. The engineering sample features six cores and twelve threads, a 50% increase over the current Steam Deck APU, with a base clock of 2.4 GHz.
Another significant upgrade is the 24 GB of LPDDR5 RAM running at 9600 MT/s, compared to the current model's 16 GB at 6400 MT/s. While not definitive, this suggests testing of a higher-memory configuration.
Benchmark results show the APU scoring 3,508 points in Furmark at 1024 × 768, close to the Steam Deck's 3,323 at 1280 × 800, indicating strong GPU performance potential.
AMD may use Zen 6 or Zen 6c cores, possibly incorporating Zen 6 LP cores from the PlayStation 6 handheld. The move away from custom AMD silicon could also mean this APU appears in other systems beyond the Steam Deck 2.
Source: TechPowerUp News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing