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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Valve releasing Switch competitor SteamDeck Dec 2021, $399, Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU

Chazore on 16 July 2021
hinch said:

People complaining about price, this is a cutting edge mini PC and there's nothing remotely out there that reaches the same performance in this form factor.

This is relatively a bargain considering what released before it. The chinese handhelds (GPD Win, Neo Anaya) that released just recently aren't anywhere near this and this does it cheaper and in terms of tech, performance, functions and features. This will easily last a generation or two of console ports and that's not something that you could say about most other portable consoles.

The people at Valve in that IGN video even state the damn thing is a "mini PC", not a "Switch competitor console". I really don't know why some ppl are having a hard time grasping this (not directed at you)



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TheBraveGallade on 16 July 2021

we also don't really know its real world specs.

the switch is actually pretty majorly underclocked, mostly to make sure it never really throttles under anything but the worst conditions possible.
we do not know if it would be the same for this thing.



hinch on 16 July 2021
TheBraveGallade said:

we also don't really know its real world specs.

the switch is actually pretty majorly underclocked, mostly to make sure it never really throttles under anything but the worst conditions possible.
we do not know if it would be the same for this thing.

There was a Van Gogh leak from Moore's Law is Dead (Youtube) a few months ago

Should be around 8-10CU's or thereabouts, with lower clocks than lower end console APUs like on Series S due to power/thermal constraints. Due to the size and battery of the Steam Deck, there's no reason to speculate whether this will throttle.



Spade on 16 July 2021

Pre ordering it myself.

Can't wait for this to be my into into PC gaming.

Will probably end up being my 3rd console. Xbox >> PS >> Deck for me



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numberwang on 16 July 2021
Pemalite said:

numberwang said:

Switch is less than half the weight and depth which is important for portability.

Battery 2-8hrs means 2 hrs for intense gaming.

Power of ARM will keep X86 handhelds down.

Switch V2 gets just 3 hours+52 mins in Crysis remastered.
Switch Lite gets 2 hours+10 mins in Haven.

https://reviews2go.com/2018/08/06/nintendo-switch-battery-life-chart-2/

No point bitching about 2 hours of intense gaming on this, that would be slightly hypocritical otherwise?

Switch V2 gets 5+ hours of BotW and 7+ hours of Smash. Crysis remastered is unoptimized garbage but it still gets nearly 4 hours on Switch V2. We are talking about 2015 X1 tech here at 16nm. Modern ARM will destroy anything X86 in power per watt at the lower end.

That thing does look really big with its large side extensions. The screen has large bezels like the non OLED Switch and 16:9 games will run with additional top&bottom borders on the 1280x800 display.

I am still happy Valve is pushing something.

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Alistair on 16 July 2021
RolStoppable said:

Poor specs for a high asking price. The size makes it clunky and heavy, the position of the control inputs is awkward, the storage solution is poor, battery life is terrible.

I guess the people who get excited for this only looked at processing power and forgot about all the rest.

I have to laugh at this. "Poor specs" yet it comes with the fastest chip available, period. Your thumbs naturally angle inward, and so the controls here are more comfortable than other portables. Storage is twice the base Switch, you can use SD cards, and you can even use any external USB hard drive also, or just pay for the NVMe. Steam is also famous for having THE BEST backup and restore system (makes the Microsoft store on PC or consoles look terrible) for game files. Battery life is dependent of settings, 2-8 hours is 4x better than the closest PC competitor, and right in line with the Switch.

Also let's just ignore the WHOPPING 16GB DDR5 that this comes with, amazing. I really wish Nintendo would focus on 16GB of memory for their next portable. (my brand new $1000 CAD gaming laptop comes with 8GB memory, and no display port alt mode, both of which the Steam deck improves upon). This means you can use low settings but MAX textures for all games. I'm playing Skyward Sword today and the textures are horrible, the main issue with the game.



Signalstar on 16 July 2021

This announcement broke the site XD



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Conina on 16 July 2021

As expected Steam is down:



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 16 July 2021

Managed to reserve one!



                  

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numberwang on 16 July 2021
Alistair said:

Also let's just ignore the WHOPPING 16GB DDR5 that this comes with, amazing. I really wish Nintendo would focus on 16GB of memory for their next portable. (my brand new $1000 CAD gaming laptop comes with 8GB memory, and no display port alt mode, both of which the Steam deck improves upon). This means you can use low settings but MAX textures for all games. I'm playing Skyward Sword today and the textures are horrible, the main issue with the game.

Max textures on a mediocre 1280x800 small screen are wasted. Skyward Sword is a ported Wii game that was developed for SD tube tvs.