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: https://lemmy.ca/post/19261005
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. I imagine Valve will wait a couple years yet.
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.
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.
The relevant metric is how much faster it is at the same power draw. The Z1 Extreme/7840U/8840U are faster compared to the Deck’s APU, but at equal power limits there isn’t too much in it.
also whether or not all the power on that chip is able to be used or if its just going to thermal throttle at 50% load
Yeah, the Z1 chips mostly out perform the deck by throwing more power at the chip, which isn’t great for a handheld with limited battery capacity.
Most consoles go 7+ years without performance upgrades. I hope Valve follows the same pattern while continuing to optimize SteamOS.
I’m guessing we’ll get a shorter lifespan, maybe 4 years.
I think if there are substantial increases in performance and efficiency then yes, they’ll have to, especially for the latter. That’s something home consoles don’t have to concern themselves with.
…or for the Deckard
Just guessing, I really don’t expect a Steam Deck release this year. But 2025 seems quite likely to me.
It’s too soon for Valve, but I’m sure AMD would love to sell chips to everyone, including those not Valve.
I kind of wonder if they would switch to ARM for the next one
@solberg @Fubarberry It already requires a colossal effort to run Windows games on Linux. Adding ARM to the equation would only be a solution looking for a problem.
We’ll get there eventually, but I think x86 to arm support is still too far out.
Maybe they’ll release that one in Australia.
