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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs" is the sort of statistic you'd only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn't sound impressive.

(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)

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[+] pyria@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

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[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean the Steam deck can't max out most games, and it's been wildly successful.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have some of the same concerns with the Frame. It is a stabdalone headset, but also just runs Steam games; it's not its own ecosystem like a Quest which has different versions for the headset vs what you stream from PC. But I haven't seen much hands-on stuff other than a physical hardware breakdown; never anything running on it.

Like, how well would it run Half-Life Alyx vs how well it might run something like Gorn? How is it gonna handle informing users what games would actually run well in standalone vs PCVR streaming?

[–] tea@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They are expanding their "steam deck verified" system to cover the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. I have to assume that they will attempt to make that distinction, because I agree, there should be a Steam Frame Platinum (for streaming) and Steam Frame Silver (for on device) or something.

I do hope they take this into account.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the goal was 4K at 60 fps, but likely varying level of "detail" like you can probably do it with lower detailed settings rather than ultra or epic or what-have-you.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Also while employing FSR3, which requires cooperation from the game.

[–] SyntheticWisp@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just keep in mind that those targets are with FSR.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That's great info, I had to read up on it

FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) is an open-source technology from AMD that improves gaming performance by rendering games at a lower resolution and then upscaling the image to a higher resolution, with versions also including frame generation to increase frame rates.

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