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[PaintTinJr]

I'm referring to the actual power of the card. 5050, 4060, 2080, 6650 XT, 7600 all perform very similarly across a large selection of games. Individual games will vary widely across platforms and vendors, especially a messy game like SM2.

Those cards are all roughly in the same ballpark as a PS5, assuming you not using DLSS or RT and you don't exceed the VRAM. Not exactly the same of course, but roughly the same tier.

For most games the Steam Machine will be slower vs the PS5, but the difference will be rather slight.

Texture quality on PS5 is still top tier in most games because of the IOcomplex and the 10-12GBs for VRAM of 16GBs. Texturing plays such a big part in game visuals, and Spiderman 2 being a proper current gen game and looking like that with that performance on the Steam Machine is a much better test for the box IMO.

The box will need to use FSR4 on its compute units to properly trade blows with a PS5 when games like SM2, Yotei and DS2 look as good as they do on base PS5 IMO.

 

[SScorpio]

I want steamos to support GOG without having to jump through hoops

It won't have official support as they sell the same games and compete with one another.

But switch to desktop mode, run the bundled Discover app and search for Heroic Launcher. Click install and then run it. Then log into your GOG account. Afterwards browse the list of games in your library and choose one to install, it will download, install, and link it within Steam automatically. Return to game mode and launch the game like any other game.

Heroic also supports Epic and Amazon libraries.

 

[Neo_game]

This is not a PC for PC builders but for the actual opposite audience, those that don't want to deal with it

There will be option to change gfx settings I am sure or just like steam deck at least. Moreover they are marketing this as a PC or hybrid so it can do other task as well and obviously mouse keyboard will work day1.

 

[Dr Bass]

There will be option to change gfx settings I am sure or just like steam deck at least. Moreover they are marketing this as a PC or hybrid so it can do other task as well and obviously mouse keyboard will work day1.

It's still going to be a lot more convenient than a typical PC.

 

[pacman4000]

Exactly. If a individual buying these parts retail can get to $400, then buying bulk with the sprat to catch a herring % on all games through Steam, and expand their market share into lower spend console players, $299 is the ideal marketing price point for the least desirable SKU. Maybe $349, but at that $50 more it is competing with PS5 head on IMO.

LOL. It won't cost $299. Not even close.