After the Nintendo Switch proved that users wanted to be able to take their gaming with them on more than just their mobile phones, handheld gaming devices got a new lease on life. This was largely thanks to a focus on power-efficient but game-friendly x86-based mobile processors from AMD.
The Steam Deck was first. It was well built and optimized, but Linux based and limited to select games in Steam’s own store. But it didn’t take long for other manufacturers to catch fire and start looking at handheld gaming PCs.
Asus released its Windows device, the ROG Ally, and now the Lenovo Legion Go is another competitor in the space. It is built on the same processor, the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme; it has the same amount of memory and storage, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD; and it more or less matches the ROG Ally in performance.
The AMD circuitry with Zen 4 architecture and RDNA 3 generation provides impressive graphics performance on PC titles, and I get the same passable frame rate and quality as I did when I tested the ROG Ally. I can run games like Starfield and Cyberpunk on medium graphics settings, between 30 and 60 FPS. These are low numbers for any performance-oriented gaming
