Would a steam deck be an upgrade from this?

[premier69]

i have an Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Gen6 and was wondering if the steam deck has the equivellent horsepower or better/worse?

[Zef]

That model tells us nothing, there are usually multiple versions of a notebook within a generation, with both intel & amd offerings.

What's the type of APU inside that notebook?

[premier69]

ok, sorry, some specs:

Processor : AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS-processor (3,80 GHz upp till 5,10 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 11 Home 64 but i use linux mint.
Graphic Card : NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 grafikkort för bärbar dator 6GB GDDR6
Memory : 16 GB LPDDR5X - 6 400MHz (lött)
Storage : 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC

[Zef]

Originally posted by premier69:

ok, sorry, some specs:

Processor : AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS-processor (3,80 GHz upp till 5,10 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 11 Home 64 but i use linux mint.
Graphic Card : NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 grafikkort för bärbar dator 6GB GDDR6
Memory : 16 GB LPDDR5X - 6 400MHz (lött)
Storage : 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC

Yeah no sh$t it's better, that's an 8 core ZEN 4 cpu compared to the deck's 4 core ZEN 2.

And then we're not even counting the discrete 3050 GPU inside.

So yes at the same resolution (800P): this ideapad is deffo better then a steam deck.

[PopinFRESH]

Originally posted by Zef:

Originally posted by premier69:

ok, sorry, some specs:

Processor : AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS-processor (3,80 GHz upp till 5,10 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 11 Home 64 but i use linux mint.
Graphic Card : NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 grafikkort för bärbar dator 6GB GDDR6
Memory : 16 GB LPDDR5X - 6 400MHz (lött)
Storage : 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC

Yeah no sh$t it's better, that's an 8 core ZEN 4 cpu compared to the deck's 4 core ZEN 2.

And then we're not even counting the discrete 3050 GPU inside.

So yes at the same resolution (800P): this ideapad is deffo better then a steam deck.

^ pretty much this. Even with the 3050 being a relatively weak GPU with only 6GB of VRAM the Steam Deck still would not be an upgrade from those specs. In some specific circumstances for some games you might end up with slightly higher effective VRAM on the Steam Deck but that doesn't mean it's going to perform better.