Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo

grue@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think there are any ‘cheap’ Strix Halo chips out there, Valve probably got a massive discount (relatively) by using previous gen. laptop parts

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They say it’s a custom design, so surely they could’ve custom-designed it to be unified rather than discrete if they wanted. I guess maybe they were trying to make sure it would only be bought by gamers by deliberately making it less versatile for AI?

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    • SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Custom in this case doesn’t really need to carry any weight either, it could be a simple voltage bump, clock bump, laser cutting cores etc. and they would still call it custom.

      It’s not a “from the ground up” custom chip. Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die, especially if they want to have a relatively beefy GPU (somewhere below Radeon 8060S, but above Radeon 780M).

      I would imagine this gives the best perf./buck from Valve’s POV, without costing an arm and a leg

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die

        Even compared to having two entirely separate memory controllers, one for the CPU and one for the GPU?

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