A very minor one, but only in a roundablut way. Valve weren’t targeting a performance boost, but a battery increase. They went for a newer generation of their processor with roughly the same processing power and slightly more efficiency. The thing is, because of the added efficiency it can sustain high loads without throttling for longer. Between that and the minute differences in processing power, it happens to have a tiny bit of a performance boost, but it’s very very minor.
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TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoOh the OLED doesn’t have any performance boost?
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sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Not really. You can sometimes see a minor boost in some games, but nothing worth the price difference.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As I understand it, it’s the same engine under the hood, you’re paying for better screen quality and a slightly longer battery life.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It has slightly different internal and external form factors in … basically only esoteric ways that only come into play if you are doing certain kinds of physical mods or upgrades to it.
But yeah, the actual internal performance specs are the same, same chip, same shared RAM amount…
I think maybe the battery might have gotten a slight upgrade, either that or the power delivery / management may have gotten a slight upgrade / tweak, but I am not 100% sure about that.