On the inside, Steam Deck runs on a custom AMD Zen 2 APU with four cores, eight threads, and up to 3.5 GHz boost. The LCD Deck has 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM at 5500 MT/s and a total bandwidth of 88 GB/s.

The MSI Claw A8 will be the first handheld to utilize an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip, which could make it a formidable Windows 11 machine. Here are 3 reasons to be excited.