Back in 2023 we were astonished by the bulk of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide behemoth of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, Ayaneo revealed its Next II handheld, which dwarfs Lenovo’s entry while offering stronger specs and a higher price than most other Windows gaming handhelds.
Start with the size. The Ayaneo Next II tips the scales at a truly wrist-aching 3.14 pounds, making it more than twice as heavy in hand as the Steam Deck OLED (and far heavier than the original 2022 Ayaneo Next, which weighed a much more modest 1.58 pounds). The unit also measures 13.45 inches wide and 10.3 inches tall, according to Ayaneo’s spec sheet, giving it a footprint roughly 60 percent larger than a Switch 2 with Joy-Cons attached.
Despite the size, Ayaneo crams serious portable PC power inside. The top-tier model uses a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with 16 Zen5 cores paired with a Radeon 8060S sporting 40 RDNA3.5 compute units. That should deliver performance comparable to a desktop with an RTX 4060 or a gaming laptop like last year’s high-end ROG Flow Z13.
Ayaneo isn’t the only manufacturer to put the Max+ 395 into a Windows gaming handheld; the OneXPlayer OneXfly Apex and GPD Win5 use essentially the same chipset, the latter paired with an external battery pack. Still, the Next II outclasses the (smaller, lighter) competition with a premium 9.06-inch OLED panel capable of 2400×1504 resolution, up to 165 Hz refresh rates, and 1,155 nits of brightness.
