Just wondering if releasing the steam deck 2 on arm would be a huge deal. I know arm is famous for being more efficient, but would it still be better, even when using FEX?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Valve didn’t design the Steam Deck’s chip

    No but they did choose it, specifically. There were certainly more powerful options available, ones that the Steam Deck’s imitators used, but they wanted a good balance of efficiency. One that’s yet to be topped.

    Valve just bought AMD’s excess stock. That’s why the Steam Machine uses such an unusual and unbalanced CPU/GPU combo.

    Source?

    • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Frankly, it seems somewhat self-evident based on the fact that Valve chose a Hawk Point 2 CPU (last gen laptop CPU with 2 big and 4 little cores) with a last gen laptop RX7600M GPU on a desktop, and also the fact that Valve calls them “semi-custom.”

      But here’s the analysis: https://youtu.be/sJI3qTb2ze8