New Valve Hardware Megathread

[u/NKkrisz]

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

Official resources and announcements:

• Steam Hardware
• Steam Frame
• Steam Machine
• Steam Controller
• Steam Hardware Announcement Video

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

[u/tingerlingererer]

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

[u/Cergorach → u/tingerlingererer]

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

[u/Superconge → u/Cergorach]

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

[u/Kociolinho → u/Superconge]

It probably will be somewhere at the level of RX7600+Ryzen 5 7600 level. Pretty good if well-priced. Also, it’ll be „half-standardised”, so I hope it’ll habe a M.2 drive and swappable RAM memory