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It's a bit older, but selected specifically for it's power efficiency. Also it was the first device with RDNA 2 graphics on an APU to hit the market, outperforming all the competition which were mostly using AMD APUs with Vega graphics.
Also the first Zen 2 mobile chips released in 2019, less than three years removed from the Deck LCD's initial release date of February 2022. The Zen 3 mobile chips were released two years later in 2021, which certainly isn't 20 years ago, and less than a year would be too quick of a turnaround for AMD and Valve to implement it in the Steam Deck's custom APU.
Giga-FLOPS, meaning FLOating Point operations per second. It's how fast a chip can do math, basically. The CPU runs up to 448 GFlops FP32, and the GPU runs at up to 1.6 TFlops FP32. Those raw tech specs don't mean a whole lot to the average user, and most people really only care about real-world gaming performance.
I think you're misreading here. "FP32" is referring to single-precision FLOPS, meaning floating point format occupying 32 bits in memory. They're not talking about frames per second.
You're correct. It doesn't automatically mean that, and in this case that number matching is purely coincidental. To put that into perspective, at 1.6 TFlops, that puts the Deck within spitting distance of the performance of the PS4.
APUs share memory between the CPU and GPU, so the GPU should use as much as it needs, and no more. It has a certain amount "dedicated" to the GPU, defaulting to 1 GB, but it's not strictly limited to that amount. You can force it to dedicate more through the BIOS, but most games are smart enough to not need this, and in some games (Red Dead Redemption 2) it can actually hurt performance.
It's coincidental. You misunderstand.
Again, FP32 meaning single-precision FLOPS. Not FPS.
6nm is the die process size of the OLED model, smaller than the LCD model which allows it to run just as well while using less power and generating less heat.
The Steam Deck uses a custom AMD Van Gogh APU with the GPU based on RDNA2 with 8 total compute units. It's roughly comparable to an GTX 1050 in performance, or roughly an RX560 on the AMD side of things, except since the Steam Deck APU is based on RDNA2 it technically supports fancy things like raytracing. (Although actually trying to use raytracing on such a low-power APU isn't very intuitive.)
32 GB would have been nice, but I understand why they went with 16 GB for cost reasons. There are people soldering on replacement chips and bringing their Steam Decks up to 32 GB of RAM, which isn't something I would recommend for the average user.
4-15 watts is what allows the Steam Deck to have better battery life than the competition. They could have done what devices like the ROG Ally did and just throw more wattage at the problem, but then you would be looking at a worst case scenario battery life of 30-40 minutes, like the (original) ROG Ally has. The custom AMD APU in the Deck also provides more performance at lower wattages than the competition. There are more important things than raw performance when you're dealing with a handheld.
Trickery? I'm glad to have a microSD slot as a way to expand my storage. I use mine exclusively for emulation files, and Steam Games get installed on the internal NVME drive, which I upgraded mine to 2 TB.
Do you... Do you think that the internal SSD and the microSD are somehow the same thing? They are two separate storage devices.
(Nodding aggressively)
Most people don't care. The only question they care about is, "Does this thing run the games I want to run well enough to enjoy?"
My money is on the former. I have three Steam Decks in my house, two LCD and one OLED. All have been working beautifully.
There is not.
As a bonus, here's a video of Doom Eternal running on the Steam Deck with raytracing enabled. Not bad for a battery powered handheld device with a maximum 15 watt TDP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJD3U1jhFY8
You gotta give it to him, even though he is a troll he at least puts some effort in useless formatting and his style is so obvious you can tell it's him even when he uses a different account
As a ROG ALLY owner, while the battery is definitely drained faster then that of the Steam Deck, i never found a game that had only 30-40 minutes of charge.
Even at 25 Watt "Turbo" mode while playing you usually get about 70-80 minutes in more demanding games.
And the vast majority of games run perfectly fine in 15 Watt "Performance" mode which most of the time gets you around 2 hours.
In 10 Watt "Silent" mode i managed 3.5 hours in some games.
And the new Ally X has longer play times then the Steam Deck across the board, simply by having a bigger battery.
That ROG Ally X actually looks to be an absolutely amazing device. I can't believe they managed to cram such a large battery into such a small package, and it solves the issues it's predecessor was having with roasting SD cards and heat.
If I needed Windows on a handheld, I would probably go for that one, and I don't hesitate to recommend that and similar Windows devices when people are shopping around, particularly if they want to play certain games with kernel-level anti-cheat.
For me though, that Steam Deck OLED just hits the sweet spot. It's enough performance with very good battery life, it's silent, it feels and operates wonderfully, and it plays the games I want to play. I also feel like Valve is really invested in the ongoing success of the Steam Deck and Linux gaming in general. They not just making a piece of consumer hardware, they're building a whole platform.
I just feel more comfortable with Windows then with Steam OS.
I love to tinker with stuff and use a lot of mods and modifications for my games and as great as Steam OS is and as far as it has come it still has a bunch of games that do not work right on it.
With a Windows handheld its just like my desktop and i can use the same solutions for any problems that crop up. Plus i have my games spread out over half a dozen clients and its just easier to run that all with a Windows enviroment.
Steam OS is definitely great for just out of the box playing your games and not having to fiddle with stuff in the background.
My SD card slot is still working fine after 6 months but i also dont keep the card in if i play in plugged in Turbo mode, because that is when the temperatures can reach 95 degree Celsius and fry the Micro SD.
In Performance mode or Custom Wattage mode the ROG ALLY usually does not exceed 60 degree Celsius, even after playing for multiple hours and it seems that is fine for the Micro SD slot.
But yeah, it was not that smart to put that slot right next to the exhaust vent.