It’s also 6 inches across. I don’t think my graphics card alone could fit in a 6 inch cube, let alone my full PC.
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KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 6 hours ago
8 GB VRAM :( 16 GB RAM :(
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 minutes ago
6 inches is objectively a decent size, they should be proud.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
8 GB VRAM in the big 26 is a yikes from me.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Steam Deck works well and has 16GB of unified RAM with only 1GB automatically assigned to VRAM.
Having 8GB dedicated should be a huge improvement.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
This machine is designed to be played on a 4k TV. Upscaling may help, but it will hard limit the machine in the future.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Why? 4k is already just past the human vision resolution. Anything denser is just masturbation.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Just because you connect to a 4K TV doesn’t mean is has to play in 4K.
I’ve connected my Steam Deck to my 8K TV.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
Isn’t Steam Deck pretty much 720p? That’s a whole different kind of ask than a machine you plug into a TV - many of which will want 4k resolution. VRAM requirements really tend to balloon with resolution.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Native on the Deck is 1280 x 800. Slightly more than 720p, but not by much!
mereo@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
But it’s not a problem in Linux: https://www.techpowerup.com/348178/valve-engineer-improves-linux-memory-management-for-gpus-with-8-gb-vram-or-less
tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I mean, it’s still a problem, just less of one. Still gonna be an issue with high texture games that cache to VRAM. But this looks to be a 1080p machine, so I suppose that wouldn’t be too big a deal here, unless the textures aren’t scaled for the resolution (some games do that these days, but I don’t know if it’s common).
garbage_world@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s still a problem