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.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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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.
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.
Idk man, their laptops are pretty over engineered imo. Bad cooling just so they can get rid of vents, touchbar that holds important system commands that just crashes..
But mostly they get better efficiency because there's no hardware variation to account for. And even then, their mx processors were causing a shit ton of compatibility issues with some of the most popular mac software. I would assume a lot of those are ironed out by now though
Just guessing, I really don't expect a Steam Deck release this year. But 2025 seems quite likely to me.
Edit: Maybe the next Steam Deck will be based on Zen 6? It is expected roughly two years after the Steam Deck OLED release.
The Zen6 architecture might adopt an advanced manufacturing process, potentially combining 3nm and 2nm technologies, to further enhance performance and efficiency. The expected launch of the Zen6 "Medusa" CPUs is projected for the 2025-2026 period, showcasing AMD's strategic planning for future developments. - Source
It's too soon for Valve, but I'm sure AMD would love to sell chips to everyone, including those not Valve.
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.
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.
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
...or for the Deckard
It all depends on how well the performance scales at very low power like 10W for example.
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.
Yall can hope! Do people import ones from Asia?
Usually from third party eBay and Amazon sellers. There's a price premium, but not bad if you're willing to wait for a sale.
I wonder if Valve will try and stick the same cadence of mainstream consoles to try and piggyback off that industry recognition
I think with games getting more demanding, they will have to release a more powerful Deck in the next 2-4 years, probably closer to 2.
IDK. Looks like it’d take up quite a lot of space in there. They still need a battery and all other crap.