Three - yes, three - upcoming Legion Go portables will reportedly sample the entire generational range of AMD Z2 CPUs

We reported a few weeks back that rumours suggested a Legion Go Lite, and a Legion Go Gen Two were on the way. That's two new Legion Go portables. There's now reason to believe that there could be three.

Notebookcheck discovered EEC filings for three different models of the Legion Go S 8ARP1, 8AHP2, 8ASP2--three distinct models. These mysterious model names have also sparked speculation about what they could mean. They might be a mess of AMD Z2 processors from three different generations.

AMD's Z1 Processors, the Z1 and Z1 Extreme, are found in two of the best gaming handheld PCs on the market today: the Asus ROG Ally (and Lenovo Legion Go). The Z1 Extreme is essentially the same as mobile processors 7840U or 8840U, but designed specifically for handhelds.

There has been a lot excitement around possible AMD Ryzen Z2 and Z2 Extreme Processors, mainly because they could feature the next-gen Strix Point Architecture that we find in some gaming notebooks. Strix Point chips, along with Intel's Lunar Lake processors provide improved performance and battery-life compared to previous generation processors. Many hope they will soon be found in new handheld devices.

Notebookcheck correctly points out that these three new Lenovo Legion Go portables could very well refer to different AMD architectural generation being used in the different AMD Z2 Processors. The "8AHP2", for example, could refer a Legion Go equipped with a Hawk Point Z2 processor - possibly functionally equivalent to that found in the current generation Legion Go - and "8ASP2", a Legion Go equipped with a Strix Point Z2 Z2 processor.

What about "8ARP1?" I'm not certain. Notebookcheck suggests it could be powered AMD Rembrandt. The Rembrandt processors have been around for a while, so I'm not sure why "RP" was chosen as the codename. Where is the "P" from "Rembrandt?" As we will see, there are reasons to believe this could make sense.

Why would we think that all these AMD processors from different generations, which will supposedly be featured in Lenovo Legion Go portables, are Z2processors? Golden Pig, a well-known Billibilli forum leaked (via VideoCardz), has provided the answer.

Golden Pig reports that there will be several Ryzen Z2 processors. The top-end Z2 Extreme features 16x RDNA 3.0 CUs, four more than the Z1 Extreme, which has 12 CUs. This is essentially the Strix Point mobile GPU 890M.

AMD is also expected to release a Z2 APU (non-Extreme), using Zen 4 architecture, with RDNA 3 graphics, and a Z2G using Zen 3+ and RDNA 2 graphics.

Three AMD Z2 processors, spanning three architectural generations (or maybe it's more like 50-50) and three upcoming Lenovo Legion Go portables with codenames which seem to refer to the same architectural generations.

If these leaks prove to be accurate, it would mean that there will three AMD Z2 portable processors, with each one utilizing a different architectural processor generation, and that three different upcoming Legion Go gaming PCs will each contain a Z2 processor.

That was a lot. Once you've sorted through the ridiculous names, it's actually quite simple. There's rumours of a Legion Go Lite, and even possible images of it. It would make sense that there be one sporting a Hawk Point or older-gen APU (Rembrandt).

AMD has to give these older processors a name, right? technicallythe Z1 Extreme processor is Phoenix and not Hawk Point even though they are essentially equivalent.

The joy of naming schemes, eh! It reminds me of AMD's wheel-o laptop decoder chip...