Resident Evil Requiem hints that AMD has indeed already abandoned the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

The launch of Resident Evil Requiem stirred more than just the usual hype — it reignited arguments in the handheld-PC scene. Strange as it sounds, recent runs show the Steam Deck (weaker hw) delivering smoother play than the ASUS ROG Ally, and that discrepancy has pushed rumors that AMD has essentially dropped Win driver support for the Ryzen Z1 family, esp. the Z1 Extreme.

PC Gamer's breakdown is blunt: on the Deck, low settings plus FSR 3.1 yield about 40–45 FPS in general, with indoor areas climbing toward 60. By contrast, ROG Ally owners with Z1 Extreme report persistent stutters and wildly fluctuating frame rates; some say the game "barely crawls" even though the Z1 Extreme should be superior on paper.

A concrete symptom: on the ROG Ally with Z1 Extreme, lowest settings and 720p in Leon's first location, the title struggles to reach 20 FPS. So, raw specs vs. real-world Win performance — the gap is glaring (i.e., drivers matter).

This isn’t only an NVIDIA tale. AMD appears to have tripped up too, notably around RDNA 2 (the generation before last), though the fault doesn’t blanket every AMD GPU — it looks tied to specific hw + driver combinations.