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Linus tried out the Steam Deck and it has a ton of info

Thank you Linus for doing what IGN didn't and giving us actual info. There's quite a bit and most are interesting so it's worth a watch.

As far as performance goes, he tried running Doom Ethernal at the Deck's native resolution at medium settings. It mostly runs at 50fps with dips to 20 fps. He tweaked some settings and was able to run it at 50-70fps. Not sure what he tweaked though.

The fans are comparable to the Aya Neo without the high pitched noise. The main sources of heat are at the screen area and the places where you touch on the Steam Deck don't get very hot. It's nearly twice as fast as the Aya Neo when running Doom. The Sticks and etc all feel good.

I wish he went through the settings and performance some more but he did only have an hour. He only tested Doom and CSGO of all things but that was for input latency test. He said games running off of the microsd card ran fine. Hopefully someone else goes more in depth as there seems to be more tech tubers being invited to try it out. Still, lots more info than IGN. It's worth a watch.

The verge also got their hands on it:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22612886/valve-steam-deck-handheld-gaming-pc-hands-on-preview

"I was able to turn up demanding sections of The Witcher 3 and Control to medium spec without feeling uncomfortable."

Whatever the heck that means.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 06 August 2021