The future APU of the Steam Deck 2 has been seen in online tests with 6 CPU cores

The next Steam Deck It seems to be going slowly, but Valve has already finished putting on the market all the hardware that it had announced at the end of last year. This gives you free rein to keep moving forward in the demands that the same company had set for the Steam Deck 2. It seems that one engineering sample detected in online tests can be the candidate APU what Valve is looking for.

Possible Steam Deck 2 APU appears in testing database

The sample has appeared in the OpenBenchmarking database and has been identified as AMD 100-000001930-12_Yand is believed to belong to AMD’s Gainsborough family. The CPU has 6 cores and 12 threadsand runs with a base speed of 2.4 GHz. Although it is unconfirmed, these 6 cores and 12 threads are expected to belong to AMD’s Zen 6 and Zen 6c architecture. It has been seen under an AMD GBR-FF6-SKT platform along with 24GB LPDDR5X memory running at 9,600 MT/s.

The leak does not reveal which GPU the AMD sample uses

But in this leak, one of the most important parts of this APU, its GPU, has not been revealed. At the moment the architecture and the number of cores used in this detected engineering sample is unknown, although we do know that the GPU has a frequency of 2.4GHz. It has been tested with a Linux Ubuntu 24.04 operating system, along with drivers for AMD Mesa 26.2.0-devel.

The tests carried out are with an engineering sample, so they do not represent a real result of the performance that this processor can have. Often, these samples perform these tests to verify that they work with this software, and then later begin adjustments that will give you better performance in the final sample.

Valve is looking for more than just an update for Steam Deck 2

AMD may be working on an upcoming APU to power the future Steam Deck 2, but Valve has already made its plans clear that it doesn’t want a simple update. We will have to wait for more leaked information to know more details about this new APU and if the video game giant’s plans are to introduce it in a future second generation of its portable console.