AMD’s latest Adrenalin drivers were found to have listed three codenames: ATLite3, AT2, and Gainsborough, the latter potentially related to Valve’s unannounced Steam Deck 2. On that note, all three codenames do not currently belong to any known GPU at the moment.
Putting aside rumours pertaining to the Steam Deck 2, the ATLite3 entry could be Orion, the GPU codename that is slated for Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 6 (name not final). Leakster and dataminer Kepler_L2 also point out that the naming convention harkens back to AMD’s older naming scheme; the PS5 GPU first appeared as Navi10Lite during its development cycle, and many variations of the PS5 still bear the Navi designation.
Moving on, both AT2 and Gainsborough aren’t new; the former has first made an appearance in earlier RDNA5 reports, while the latter has been mentioned several times, more so in connection with Valve and, in this case, the yet-to-be-released Steam Deck 2.
Fans of Final Fantasy VII will no doubt be familiar with the name: it’s a direct reference to one of the characters, Aerith Gainsborough. For dataminers and people who own the Steam Deck, that was the full name of the original handheld’s SoC. The chipset in the OLED model was later revised to Sephiroth, the main antagonist of the game and, as fans know, killed Aerith sometime in the middle of the game.
In regards to that last point: no, me telling you Aerith dies isn’t a spoiler. The original game came out in 1997, decades before the remakes even landed. At this point, it’s common knowledge for gamers, in the same vein as The Passion and King Kong: we all know why they died, and we know why they died. Deal with it.
In any case, it’s still early days to expect a Steam Deck 2, and Valve has made it clear time and time again that, while the development and announcement of the successor to its current handheld is still on track, we shouldn’t expect it at least till late 2027 or sometime in 2028.
(Source: Videocardz, TPU, Anandtech Forums)
