This weekend is your first chance to buy a handheld PC with AMD's powerful new chip

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AOKZOE. A-ok, Zoe. Oak Zoe. I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce this handheld PC's name, but I can at least confirm that its new A1 Pro handheld looks mighty thanks to the Ryzen 7 7840U stuffed inside it.

The AOKZOE A1 Pro is a handheld gaming PC that looks a lot like any other. It comes with an 8-inch screen, flanked by analogue sticks, but this one does come with some patches of RGB lighting. Admittedly, I feel these will almost always be covered by your palms as you play, but there is power-sucking RGB. Let that be known.

Let's be honest, the main draw of this handheld is the chip powering it: the Ryzen 7 7840U.

That's basically the same as the top ROG Ally, which is using a semi-custom version called the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Both share an eight-core Zen 4 CPU with 12 CU RDNA 3 GPU, and that's a huge step up on the AMD chip powering the Steam Deck.

For all that power, the AOKZOE A1 Pro can run a 1920 x 1200 pixel screen—another big upgrade over the Steam Deck.

AOKZOE has dropped a handful of benchmarks to give a rough idea of the performance you can expect out of this handheld. Just note a good few of these benchmarks are running at the same resolution to the Steam Deck, and not at the handheld's native res.

The AOKZOE A1 Pro will launch on April 30 at 8am PT (4pm BST) on Indiegogo, ahead of the ROG Ally's release date of May 11, but I doubt you'll get this console in your hands before someone that buys the ROG Ally at launch. 

There are a few models to choose from:

The cheaper model would be $100 more than the rumoured price of the top ROG Ally(opens in new tab), but would come with 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, which is double what Asus is offering. The A1 Pro is notably heavier, however, at 729g to 608g, and that will matter