That’s what I thought too. Add the fact that Valve time != normal time.
Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought
ssroxnak@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Didn’t Valve say it was gonna be quite a while until they release a Steam Deck 2?
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
catnip@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I think the zoomers dont really know what “quite a while” is.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yes, but that was awhile ago that they said it as well.
skibidi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They said they would wait until there was a meaningful increase in the power or efficiency they could get out of the form-factor.
The OG deck launched 3.5 years ago, and since then not much has changed. The steam deck GPU has 1.6 TFlop of FP32 compute at 15W. AMD’s newest low-power APUs have 2.3 TFlop of FP32 at 28W - nearly double the power for a <50% theoretical performance gain.
A semi-custom APU (that removes the useless AI engine) would compare more favorably, but we are still talking about maybe 20% more performance, not exactly game changing for the cost.