Honestly I think it’s probably too soon for the kind of significant performance increase Valve is wanting for the Steam Deck 2. Not to mention that the OLED deck just came out. That said, even if these chips don’t make it to a Deck 2 I’m sure we’ll see them in competing devices.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19261005
warm@kbin.earth 5 months ago
It depends on efficiency, it's all good and well having more performance, but if the battery life is only 2 hours it's useless.
lud@lemm.ee 5 months ago
More performance often means that you can throttle it to a greater degree and hopefully still get more performance at a similar or better efficiency.
warm@kbin.earth 5 months ago
Yeah you are not wrong, but why have a more expensive chip just to throttle it, better to keep the cost of the deck down so more people can afford it.
filister@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Isn’t it what Apple is doing? They downclock some of their components to extend battery life and make their machines run less noisy, which in my opinion is a clever move. As much as I hate Apple, I have to admit that their hardware is good.