I tried Steam Deck early and it's AWESOME! - console
(hx) 09:54 AM CEST - Aug,07 2021
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Steam Deck is powered by AMD Van Gogh APU with Zen2 microarchitecture. The APU offers 4 cores and 8 threads clocked up to 3.5 GHz. This new AMD APU is the first to be equipped with RDNA2 integrated graphics. Valve has disclosed that the processor offers 8 Compute Units clocked up to 1.6 GHz. The device is equipped with a 1280×800 screen, which in combination with RDNA2 and FSR support through select titles, should offer a playable experience in most games available through Steam.
Valve’s hands-on did not allow participants to modify the collection of installed games. The preproduction sample also did not allow for Steam account change. This greatly restricted what could have been tested. The hands-on unit offered the following titles: Hades, Halo 4, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, The Ascent, Control, Dead Cells, Death Stranding, Disco Elysium, Doom Eternal, Guilty Gear Strive, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Sunset Overdrive, Prey, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Stardew Valley, Sea of Thieves, Death’s Door, Factoria, Dying Light: The Following, The Outer Worlds, and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered.
Linus tested the console in Doom Eternal and compared the performance metrics side by side with Aya Neo, powered by Zen2 CPU but also with a bit older Vega GPU. In the same scene and similar settings, the Deck offers 59 FPs compared to 37 FPS on Aya Neo. That means that Steam Deck is 59.4% faster than Aya Neo.
You could tell that Linus was really, really excited for this. Great energy!
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