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JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

Yeah. Basically a desktop Radeon 7400 or Mobile Radeon 7600M.

It's not a 4k 60fps machine like they advertised, it would likely struggle with 1080P medium settings in modern games.

16GB of Ram sucks.
CPU being only 6 cores is not the end of the world, but it will lack longevity, for any gaming machine you need 8 cores or better ideally, especially in CPU intensive games like Civilization which benefits greatly from the extra resources.

Keep in mind that idiot "MLID" also said that the Steam Machine would be running with Zen6 CPU cores and would compete with Sony's Playstation 6 console.
So whilst he is correct on some stuff... He is grossly incorrect on many others.

My comment was more in line of "Hey, he got something right for once!", not to praise him or anything.

Also, the CPU in the Steam Machine will be more than fine as it will be the GPU that will be the bottleneck here. An 8-core one would have been a waste of resources and add unnecessary costs.

I mean, yeah. The GPU is garbage. Ideally I would have liked to have seen a Radeon RX 9060 8GB... Just for FSR4 and the massively improved RT performance.
Or even a cutdown RX 9060 8GB would have been better than the Radeon RX 6600/7400 level GPU.

We can't ignore the long term driver support issue either, AMD has already hinted it wants to depreciate older RDNA architectures rapidly... Making the RDNA3 GPU a bad choice.

But games that aren't super GPU bound like Cities Skylines, Civilization. I.E. RTS/TBS games, the extra CPU headroom would have been good... Maybe I am a CPU core snob, I haven't had anything less than 8-cores for 15 years now... Even AMD's handheld chips like the Z2 Extreme tend to have 8 cores now.