bonzobanana said:
These Steam vs Switch 2 videos are generally highly misleading as the compare hdmi output of both consoles and the Steamdeck doesn't have a higher performance level for hdmi output and the Switch 2 video represents its performance level for at home only not as a portable. The Steam deck is designed to output a 800p resolution and that is what you get by default if you connect to hdmi I believe although you can adjust it and use upscalers and frame doubling etc nowadays. Any comparison we need to see the display panel to be fair. I'm happy to see both in the same video but just hdmi output compared is misleading. A quick look online shows Pragmata is heavily downgraded in portable mode on Switch 2 plus you have all the inherent problems of the Switch 2 display panel often causing higher input lag, smearing and more juddery less smooth display. Surely if you are comparing to Steam Deck the primary comparison is portable mode as the Steam deck is primarily a portable console with no enhanced docked mode. Would Switch 2 owners be happy with the portable mode of Switch 2 compared to PS5? Again that would be a portable vs hdmi comparison and not the logical comparison. The Switch 2 allows for up to 42W to go to the console when docked from the 60W PSU but the same chipset including display panel gets less than 10W max in portable mode (19.2Wh battery with up to 2 hours gaming with the most demanding titles). The Switch 2 would likely last less than 1/2hr at this performance level while portable. We don't have the figures but going by power consumption we can assume the real world GPU performance in portable mode is likely 1/3rd or slightly above that of docked mode. Likely below 1 Teraflop. Yes it can peak at around 1.2 Teraflop going by the Geekerwan analysis but like the Switch 1 the real figure of portable performance is well below the peak figure it is capable of unlike docked performance which can maintain higher figures because of a constant power connection that is doesn't have to ration. |
The Steam Deck is somewhat of a hybrid system, too. At 25W and bright display the battery time is below 1 hour and it should be plugged in. At 10W it is more comparable to the Switch2 handheld mode. Watt for Watt the Switch 2 is superior.
