The Steam Deck is already a couple of years old, so it’s not that hard to do. This thing has better specs across the board, with even the base model having twice the cores and threads as the Deck.
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Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Better than Steam Deck?
funkajunk@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not really sure core and thread count is a good metric. The steam deck is getting more specific support and there’s more to consider about a CPU.
DdCno1@kbin.social 7 months ago
Exactly. That's what nearly all of the competitors fail at. Sure, they might have more performance, are slimmer, have this feature or that advantage, but when it comes to actually getting games to work with them and the user experience, none are as good as Valve's handheld.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Steamdeck performance is still pretty good though, imo the most important factor in the handheld pc market is battery life. If games take a 5% hit to performance for an extra 40 minutes of battery life, the tradeoff becomes obvious to me.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Time will tell. On paper, yes. In practice, who knows
RedWeasel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Most of the handheld benchmarks have been 3% or 4% higher compared to the Steamdeck at 15 watts, which often is a 1 to 4 FPS difference. This would explain why Valve isn’t in a hurry for a Steamdeck 2. If you plan of playing on battery, then that is what you’ll probably running around that if you plan on playing a while. The main advantage of these newer chips is when used plugged in.