Steam Deck
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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.
IDK. Looks like it’d take up quite a lot of space in there. They still need a battery and all other crap.
I kind of wonder if they would switch to ARM for the next one
We'll get there eventually, but I think x86 to arm support is still too far out.
@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.
...or for the Deckard
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.
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.
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.
The deck is already too weak to play most modern games. You can't play Madden 24 with a stable 30 FPS and sports games are perfect for handheld gaming devices.
The ROG ALLY seems to want to release new models every year or so to keep up and if the steam deck doesn't do the same I fear their sales will plummet until a new model comes out.
I don't think that Rog Ally is very successful though. Do you have some sales numbers? And releasing a new model every year will add complexity as they will need to support different hardware platforms, etc.
I also agree that it would have been great if the Deck had more oomph, but they do compensate with great software support and real dedication on their side.
It all depends on how well the performance scales at very low power like 10W for example.
Maybe they’ll release that one in Australia.
Yall can hope! Do people import ones from Asia?
It's too soon for Valve, but I'm sure AMD would love to sell chips to everyone, including those not Valve.
Just guessing, I really don't expect a Steam Deck release this year. But 2025 seems quite likely to me.