Comment on Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - iFixit
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 day agoYeah, the most powerful boxes are on par with the chip in the Steam Frame, aside from RAM and the SSD. The biggest costs are elsewhere. It’s not the chip itself.
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
The most powerful boxes are using a 10 year old Nvidia Tegra chip. Not to mention the rest of them.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 day ago
There are devices more powerful than that. And from what I can tell, you’d cut $100 in SoC cost and lose 75% of the the performance compared to the closest competitors.
Again, you’re comparing to devices which does not have to do onboard SLAM tracking, which displays a single output image instead of two, which does not need to meet the latency and image refresh rate targets, which does not connect two dual Wi-Fi connections for extra stability and redundance, etc.
Even if you go for the tightest margin, economics still give you mass market chips with excess capacity because you have to pick chips with enough ports, enough bandwidth, low latency, high maximum CPU frequencies, etc. And then the question is again back to a difference in parts cost between “can only ever stream” vs “can stream AND game locally” that’s just some hundred dollars of parts cost.