I've been playing the hell out of Avowed over the last few days, and I've been doing it all on a tablet. I'm not talking about Xbox streaming via an iPad or Samsung Galaxy - this is full native Windows 11 gameplay running through an Asus ROG Flow Z13. It's like magic.
There's no dedicated graphics card in this screen-only device, instead Asus has packed it with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 390, a Strix Halo CPU announced only last month. The AI-focused processor combines 12 Zen 5 CPU cores (and 24 threads) with 32 graphics cores. The chip can clock at up to 5GHz, drawing a massive 120W in the process. That's a lot of power for the best gaming tablet on the market, but I'm more excited by what this chip can bring to the smaller screen. After all, both industries are playing the same game, they both want to make their mobile devices as efficient as possible, and the last few years' worth of developments in the world of gaming laptops and other portable devices has shown just how quickly this tech is shrinking. The handy thing about tablets is they're doing all this a few years ahead of handhelds, so they provide a pretty secure model for mapping a similar timeline.
