If you want to sell a Steam console, it has to do 4k pretty well, because that’s what TVs have these days. An APU won’t cut it for that, you’ll need a discrete GPU.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting that it uses a dedicated 9070 (ugh that name), rather than being a custom APU, like the other AMD consoles and the deck. Surely this just adds cost and design complexity.
That said, perhaps they’re being cautious - if you can’t sell a lot of them, a custom APU isn’t worth it. It’s also probably much faster to bring to market if you’re using off-the-shelf parts.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not a laptop-class one, no. That’s why I said custom. A PS5 Pro uses an APU and is more powerful than most people’s desktops.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But not as powerful as the average gaming PC. If you take a mini ITX board, an every level Ryzen processor and something like an RX 7700 that would make a pretty cool system. If you manage to sell that for under $600, you have a winner.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A PS5 Pro is far more powerful than the average gaming PC.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Valve developers are the main contributors to the RADV Vulkan driver so they’ve done work on pretty much every AMD card that supports Vulkan. So yeah, pretty silly rumour if that’s the evidence.