- Rumors suggest we could be getting an MSI Claw Ryzen Z2 announcement
- MSI Claw 8 AI+ ships to customers this month
- It is not clear if it could be with a Ryzen Z2 Extreme or Z2 processor
CES 2025 has seen plenty of announcements for desktop, laptop and notebook PC hardware, and a new rumor suggests that MSI could join the party, potentially announcing a new Claw portable gaming PC, powered by AMD’s Ryzen Z2 APU.
this comes from CodeCommand (a reliable source of AMD and MSI leaks) at X, who claims that a new MSI Claw will be announced paired with Intel’s Lunar Lake and the new AMD Ryzen Z2 processor. However, there is no information on whether this reveal would happen during CES 2025 (which is now coming to an end) or later.
The MSI Claw 8 AI+ was announced last December and is expected to ship to customers this month. Based on these new rumors, there is a small chance that we could see an announcement or preview of a Ryzen Z2 version later this year.
How would a Ryzen Z2 version of MSI Claw fare against its competitors?
While there have been no suggestions that MSI rival Asus may release a successor to the ROG Ally .
Again, I must emphasize that this is still a rumor, but if MSI really plans to announce a new MSI Claw so soon after the release of the Claw 8 AI+, I imagine it would use the Z2 Extreme instead of the Z2 chip. , if only to keep up with the competition.
In that case, it could go toe-to-toe on performance with devices like the Legion Go 2 and other Z2 Extreme-based wearables. That’s not to say that the current Lunar Lake processors found in the MSI Claw 7 and 8 aren’t powerful enough, but AMD’s chip could perform better with the advantage of the FSR upscaling method that has been in development for longer than the Intel’s new XeSS, which does a similar job.
Regardless, we’re probably still a long way away from seeing a major new entry to MSI’s line of portable gaming PCs, at least for now. But, as more of MSI’s competitors release increasingly powerful gaming laptop PCs, you won’t want to wait too long before also releasing a new, more powerful version of the Claw.
