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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

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.

As nice as having a vid like that is, Linus is the very last guy I expect for in depth performance talk. He used to be all about that, before he built his own company/studio and hired ppl to do that for him (which he didn't use in this video sadly). I'd expect GN to have a better in depth look, since he's mostly about all sorts of perf ratios, highs and lows, as well as tweaks (I loved his Watch Dogs 2 tweak vid back in the day). 

Yea that's true. It is annoying that all we are seeing are the more casual youtubers than the actual tech people. I suppose they do have the larger audience but still. It's clear Valve doesn't mind you going over the settings and performance so go over the settings and performance. I'd rather have at least 10 minutes dedicated to that than most of the other content.

hinch said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea I think their excessive spending is starting to come back to them. Especially with this years e3 where we saw most games being on Steam.

And yea, I fear that Nvidia and AMD next year are both gonna price their GPUs well above $300 and if Intel GPUs don't perform well... It ain't gonna be something to look forward to. Especially with Crypto and such.

Yup. They were super aggressive the past year and I'm not too sure its working. I mean they've probably gained some marketshare though not as much as they'd want or expect. Steam is still a beast and take more than some money hats and free games to win people over. Still, its nice to have some competition since there hasn't been anything that comes close to offering what Steam has or had (at least in terms of library) as to EGS.

True consumers have spoken with their wallets and they know people are willing to spend. I think the sub $300 GPU category is largely gone, and thus the entry level 50/0 tier cards with it. Lets see what Intel releases, they could surprise us (or not).

Yea pretty much. I think Epic just took the wrong approach overall and had quite a negative word of mouth in the PC community. I like the idea of giving people free games every month. That's a great idea. But exclusivity and money hatting is something most PC gamers don't like because back during the 7th gen, there were many games that were exclusive to consoles. If Epic said, we are launching a new store and every month, there will be free games and kept out the exclusivity/money hatting part, I think people would give it a go. Instead, they went in with the opposite approach of what PC gaming is all about.