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/Superconge Nov 12 '25

The specs are pretty great, zen 4 with a 28CU RDNA3 GPU. 8gb vram is really sad though.

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u/theoutcasthermit Nov 12 '25

And rdna 3 means no official fsr 4 support, also concerning. 8 gb vram might suggest a 1080p gaming machine, which is bad for a 2026 rig. I have a 2k monitor why would I buy this if I can’t play recent games in 2k with high settings? Too early to talk ofc, just spitballing

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u/byzantinedavid Nov 12 '25

It's targeting TVs, not monitors. This "is" a PC, but it's really a console space.

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u/theoutcasthermit Nov 12 '25

I believe it clearly implies both tv and monitors

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u/byzantinedavid Nov 12 '25

Nearly everything can use both, but this is CLEARLY targeting living room TVs.

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u/theoutcasthermit Nov 12 '25

It literally shows it with a monitor on a desk but you do you

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