Comment on Discussion: Do you think the next steamdeck will be x86 or ARM?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Sounds unlikely to me.
Valve would be taking on a huge compatibility problem in exchange for maybe better battery life in scenarios that already have good battery life.
geoff@midwest.social 5 days ago
It also seems likely that the perf hit from x86_64 -> ARM64 emulation, even if the emulation is really excellent, might very well eat up any battery savings from the more efficient ARM chip.
My understanding is that ARM chips work fine for gaming when games are built for ARM, but that is far from the norm at the moment.
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Right, so basically mobile games