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New AMD CPU leak looks like a perfect fit for Steam Deck 2 (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

which in my opinion is a clever move.

Well that's an interesting take? We have these things called "power profiles" that are not new. It's just hamstringing performance...