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How powerful is Steamdeck's APU for CPU intensive Linux programs? Anyone have benchmarks? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm interested academically (please no "it's enough").

As in: if they release a steamdeck laptop with the same motherboard and chipset as the steamdeck, how would it stack up against other laptops for general computing. We already know the gaming part of it. I doubt they would release a laptop version for this iteration, but maybe for steamdeck 2 we'll get a steamdeck 2 laptop version.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But there are already a hundred laptops with similar specs that will run Linux.... There's not much reason for Valve to release a laptop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pardon if I wasn't clear, this would be with the same motherboard and chipset as the steamdeck (added that to the post). Economies of scale should get it cheaper than competitors, for the budget market. Steamdeck is now popular enough many games want to make sure it runs on it, it's a strong development point and I expect future versions well get even stronger. And you also get long term support (I'm reading how nvidia drops Linux support long term).

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

Again, laptops with that chipset kind of already exist. Steam Deck uses a custom AMD APU, but it's really not that special. The point of the customization is to make it work well in that handheld form factor. If you're putting it in a laptop you might as well just use a more common (and more powerful) laptop chipset because you have more space.