A Windows handheld with 128GB RAM, a 9-inch OLED, and a battery bigger than most gaming laptops. AYANEO just redefined what "portable" means.
The Steam Deck has 16GB of RAM. This thing has eight times that — and a 116 Wh battery that dwarfs everything else in the portable gaming space.
Chinese manufacturer AYANEO just revealed full specs for the NEXT 2, a Windows handheld targeting buyers who think the ROG Ally is underpowered. Prices run from $1,799 to $4,299. Yes, that’s desktop
PC money for something you hold in your hands.
Ryzen AI Max inside
The NEXT 2 runs AMD’s Ryzen AI Max chips — the same silicon going into high-end ultrabooks. Two options: the base Max 385 or the Max+ 395, which AYANEO claims delivers discrete GPU-level graphics.
Given AMD’s own benchmarks showing the Max+ 395 trading blows with an RTX 4070 Laptop in certain workloads, that’s not entirely marketing speak.
Memory configs go up to 128GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. For a handheld. The base $1,799 model gets 32GB/1TB, which is still absurd by portable standards.
The Display Steam Deck Wishes It Had
A 9.06-inch OLED panel at 2400×1504 resolution with 120Hz refresh. That’s sharper and larger than the Steam Deck OLED’s 7.4-inch 1280×800 screen. Front-firing speakers sit on either side — no more
cupping your hands to hear audio.
Controls built for actual gaming
AYANEO went deep on input hardware:
- TMR joysticks with adjustable torque resistance
- Hall effect sticks and triggers (no drift, ever)
- 8-way D-pad
- Two touchpads
- Four programmable back buttons
Dual fans handle cooling. At this power draw, they’ll need to.
The battery changes everything
116 Wh. For context, most gaming laptops carry 80–100 Wh batteries. The Steam Deck has 40 Wh. The ROG Ally has 40 Wh.
AYANEO essentially stuffed ultrabook battery capacity into a handheld chassis. Runtime will still depend heavily on workload — Ryzen AI Max chips are power-hungry — but starting from nearly triple the
competition’s capacity gives serious headroom.
The price problem
- $1,799 — 32GB RAM / 1TB SSD
- $4,299 — 128GB RAM / 2TB SSD
That top config costs more than a ROG Ally, Steam Deck OLED, and Nintendo Switch OLED combined. Twice over.
AYANEO isn’t competing with Valve or ASUS. They’re building portable workstations that happen to play games — machines for people who want to run local LLMs, edit 4K video on a plane, or just flex the
most overkill handheld ever made.
The Steam Deck isn’t dead. But it’s definitely not playing in the same league anymore.
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