Unless you plan to use it as a PC too idk that I'd bother with it, unless a specific game you want to play turns out to have issues with SteamOS. Keep the sleeker OS imo, you don't want to pay the overhead unless you need to.
Nah, it will be fine. 800p locked is a given.
What does that have to do with anything? Steam Deck doesn't have Series X hardware it has to cool & power, it has a 15w envelope (or less, if capped). That's nothing given all its vents.
No, GPU will still be the main bottleneck, especially memory bandwidth. A lot of settings that might hit the CPU will hit the GPU even harder first (LOD, etc.) so in the end it's still the GPU that needs more CUs/memory bw in the future for an upgraded version.
They don't but they actually scale non-linearly in favour of Durante's argument. Remember that console settings are closer to the tail-end of the graphics/performance slope.
RT is actually doable. I was testing RDNA 2 @ 500 mhz with my 6800 trying to limit everything as much as possible and it could still do 900p w/ all RT effects @ 50w (which is more a cap of the config than how high it needs to be) in Cyberpunk 2077 which is a worst-case scenario pretty much. Will you actually want to turn RT on here instead of just stabilising fps & other settings? Ofc not, but it bodes very well for RT-required titles such as Exodus EE etc.
Exactly, it's a great piece of hardware for the price.
60 fps might be an issue more often than not for AAA-type games but a stable 30 fps is guaranteed in pretty much everything.
Pretty much, they packed so much in, it's crazy!
These types of forums always have a lot of negative nancies infesting them, not worth paying attention to. The tech they pack in this thing, and for the release date, is nothing short of a miracle, and then the price is the cherry on top. This is one of the best hardware releases in history, and that's me downplaying it. The only thing bad about it is they need to make 10s of millions in the first year and they won't be able to.
To put it in perspective, the technology in the chip they're using is not something that will be generally available any sooner than late next year, and people who would put it together in a handheld (e.g. like Aya Neo et al) would probably not be able to do that until 2023 and would charge a cool $1000 at a minimum, with likely fewer I/O options and without the software support Valve promises. When you look at everything Steam Deck does in a single package, it's simply unbelievable. It's the kind of product you might day-dream about that could be possible if people would take X, Y, and Z technologies you know about and then would combine them, but you'd never expect that to actually happen. It's the exact opposite of what Nintendo does (or what you'd expect from corporations in general).
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Sounds like a great portable PC. I might get one down the road.
