Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.
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simple@lemm.ee 4 days agoThe battery life test is even more damning. SteamOS in some cases had more than 2x better battery life.
pycorax@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 days ago
What else would it be coming from on the exact same hardware?
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Drivers possibly? I don’t mean it as a dig at SteamOS, I’m just curious where the discrepancy is from.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
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Yeah you’re right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 days ago
wtf happened at dead cells? I mean I almost don’t believe the results
Laser@feddit.org 3 days ago
It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn’t very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can’t get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This explains why Windows laptops just randomly start spinning their fans. Random energy consumption -> heat production increased -> fan spins