Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)

• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It's not that much smaller, and like 80% of the GabeCube seems to be cooling...

  The PS5 is that bulky because of the stupid exterior shell design, and that big because Sony went into weird directions with the cooling. Reformat that into a more traditional form factor and you can reduce overall size by 30-50%. Hell, there's gaming oriented mini PCs that are 1/2-1/3 the size of a PS5 Slim, with double the performance...

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hell, there’s gaming oriented mini PCs that are 1/2-1/3 the size of a PS5 Slim, with double the performance…

    Sure, for triple the price. Steam Machine’s draw here is that it will likely be around PS5 Pro level performance for around the same price (they said entry level gaming PC, so I’m guessing base price around 600).

    Also, kudos for GabeCube, perfect nickname

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    • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Triple the price? The fuck are you talking about?

      Gaming-oriented mini PCs match the PS5 performance around $300. Around $600-800 you'll even get dedicated (albeit mobile) GPUs.

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      • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d like to see a link to a parts list that provides PS5 level performance for $300 in any form factor.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Gaming-oriented mini PCs match the PS5 performance around $300.

        I don’t think so.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The switch 2 is essentially ps4 level. Ps5 is what…5 years old, and based on chips a year or so beyond that? I don’t think it’s crazy at all to expect ps5 grade performance in this form factor coming next year.

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it basically has less cpu cores, (6c/12t vs ps5 8c/16t) and less GPU compute units (28CU vs 36CU), however the GabeCube uses newer CPU and GPU architecture compared to the PS5 (Zen 4 vs PS5’s Zen 2, RDNA3 instead of PS5’s RNDA2) to make up a little bit of ground. hence why if you had to give it a rough performance, its near a PS5, but not exactly quite there.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think the newer architecture will make up for all of that but 🤞🤞

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      RDNA2 > RDNA3 is liek ~10% gen over gen, so gpu wise, its still sort of behind. CPU wise, Zen 2 > Zen 4 is a huge jump

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