One of the big focuses of handheld gaming PCs like Valve’s Steam Deck or the ROG Xbox Ally is on not just power, but efficiency. In something so small, its critical that the chipsets inside are able to offer impressive frame rates while slow-sipping that battery juice.
It's always been an important tradeoff since the advent of laptops, but smaller devices requiring more power have brought it into a sharper focus. Now it appears that AMD’s Z2 Extreme has leapfrogged Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V, as seen in new gaming benchmarks comparing the AMD-armed MSI Claw A8 and the Intel-ified MSI Claw 8 AI+.
