Submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://wccftech.com/new-steam-console-powered-by-rdna-4-might-be-in-the-works-at-valve/
Gonna copy what I said before:
is this trust worthy?
Extasis mentions this guy handledeck as the source
xcancel.com/HandleDeck/…/1886501899832021224#m
which links to this video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKzbHIWDK4
which just mentions this article www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0-RADV-RDNA4-State
saying: “by reading this article carefully we can come up to the conclusion that…”
Seems all bullshit.
The latest Valve Steam Console rumour with AMD RDNA4 can be safely ignored - here’s why - Gamingonlinux article
If you’ve been reading tech articles long enough, you know when wccftech appears; don’t trust a single word.
What the fuck is that controller. God I hate it.
One thing I know about myself though, is my instincts suck and I’ll probably be eating those words before long.
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.
Also, Valve has done driver work on plenty of things that they don’t use in their own hardware, from various AMD cards, Intel graphics, and even work on the open source Nvidia drivers
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.
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.
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.
i’m not sure i see the point really? i guess it’ll just be cheaper?
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Rumors [denied by Valve] (bsky.app/profile/…/3lhflptgruk2v)