Valve Details Steambox Prototype Specs Compared To PS4 XB1

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dahuman said:

Daisuke72 said:
Was really hoping for AMD hardware.

A 7770 entry model sporting a dual core i3 and 4GB DDR3 RAM with 1GB VRAM with steam OS, with their discounts could go for $300 on the market with them taking a very small loss. With the mantle API and all it would've gotten Xbone performance. Shame, really.

You really don't want that because AMD's software engineering capabilities are not up Nvidia's standards, Nvidia is actually developing Steam OS.

The problem with that is that those 300 free prototypes are just test boxes that will be used to discover, identify, learn and solve problems for when the real machines come out. And unless Valve decides to go only with Nvidia cards on its machines, which would be a pretty stupid for a company that constantly talks about being open and for everyone, "forgetting" to do those tests with AMD components is a pretty stupid move.