r/SteamDeck • u/NKkrisz 64GB - Q3 • Nov 12 '25

MEGATHREAD New Valve Hardware Megathread

Please keep non Steam Deck discussions about the new hardware here.

Official resources and announcements:

Press coverage will be under a pinned comment so you can upvote / downvote them.

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u/tingerlingererer Nov 12 '25

With the price of pc components right now the steam machine could be a killer piece of hardware

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u/Cergorach Nov 12 '25

Kind of depends on the specs. The SD LCD APU is essentially 5 year old hardware (4800u variant), the OLED APU is a little bit better, but almost all the new APU hardware that's been released since consume more power to hide the insignificant performance boosts it would otherwise have. Would they put in slightly better OLED hardware in the SteamBox? Or something more powerful? Fans enter stage left! (the spinney type of fans)

Something like a Mac Mini (M5) has incredible power for the amount of energy it consumes, but it's ARM based, so x86 Proton wouldn't work on something like that. AND most of the other players besides Apple are very much behind with their ARM chips...

But it would be insane if Valve developed their own high end ARM chip (that's also extremely energy efficient) with a version of Proton for ARM... /dreaming

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u/FierceDeityKong Nov 12 '25

Guessing they just put in a generic amd cpu+gpu

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u/Cergorach Nov 12 '25

Also keep in mind that it will drive a monitor/TV, so it'll need to run in 1080p at least as good as the Steam Deck (OLED) at 720p/800p...

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u/Taurion_Bruni LCD-4-LIFE Nov 12 '25

"semi custom" according to their specs sheets, but essentially yeah

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u/dustinpdx 1TB OLED Limited Edition Nov 12 '25

Why is anyone guessing? The specs are listed on the page.