The smach z handheld console will arrive this year with amd raven ridge

Smach Z is a portable console that was talked about a long time ago, it promises to offer a good gaming experience in a very compact device, something that will finally be possible thanks to the powerful and efficient AMD Raven Ridge processors.

Smach Z reaches its final version thanks to Raven Ridge

The original project was canceled but returned to Kickstarter in August 2016, at that time a device was promised that would run on an AMD Falcon processor accompanied by a 1080p display and Steam Controller. This idea has been dismissed in favor of using a Ryzen V1000 processor based on AMD's Raven Ridge platform, which promises far superior performance thanks to its Zen and Vega technology.

Specifically, a Ryzen V1605B processor would be used, this is made up of four cores and eight processing threads with a TDP of 15W, the set is dressed with a Vega 8 GPU with 512 shaders. The high efficiency of this processor allows to build a fairly compact portable device with very respectable performance. Smach Z Pro will offer 8GB of DDR4-2133 memory and 128GB of solid-state storage, while the base model Smach Z has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.

This new Smach Z is expected to be unveiled during the Embedded World event to be held between February 27 and March 1. The arrival of AMD Raven Ridge chips has been a revolution in offering a single package with very tight power consumption and excellent potential in both CPU and GPU.

	SMACH Z	SMACH Z PRO
CPU	AMD Ryzen ™ V1605B
GPU	AMD Radeon ™ Vega 8 Graphics
RAM	4GB DDR4 2133MHz	8GB DDR4 2133MHz
Storage	64GB SSD	128GB SSD
Screen	Touchscreen 6 ”1920x1080px
Camera	none	5 Mpx
Connectivity	WiFi 802.11 b / g / n / d / e / h / i, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR / v3.0 / v3.0HS / v4.0
In / out	USB-C, USB-A, Micro USB, Display Port, SD card, Audio minijack.
Charger	USB-C 20V 2.25A 65W. EU / US / UK plug
SW	Windows 10 or Linux