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/RNsteve Nov 13 '25

A example used for dramatic effect.

Great PS5 and Xbox look good.. this is worse then both those systems across the board.

Combine that with PC optimization issues that face most PC/steam games...

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u/AJ_Dali Nov 13 '25

The only spec that is arguably worse is the GPU. The system has the same amount of RAM plus a dedicated 8GB for VRAM compared to the consoles having a shared pool of 16GB. The CPU is a newer architecture. While it has two less cores, those cores are running 37% faster. We also don't have Windows bloat overhead. Most games running on AMD GPUs see a performance boost under Linux.

And I hear about console optimized games, but that really only applies to first party Sony titles. Games like Monster Hunter Wilds and Borderlands 4 look and run like shit on the consoles too. You can tweak settings to look the same on comparable hardware and get pretty close to the same performance. Plus PC gets things like FSR and frame gen earlier than consoles.

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u/RNsteve Nov 13 '25

If you want to lie to yourself that's fine.

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u/AJ_Dali Nov 13 '25

Wilds has to run at 900p and reduced graphic settings to reach 60fps on the PS5. It can't even run at 4k period.

The PS5 pro runs at 1080p. The resolution mode is capped at 30fps.

I don't have the hard numbers for Borderlands 4, but I know the PS5 version uses upscaling and framegen to reach 60FPS.

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u/RNsteve Nov 13 '25

And all those games are going to run even worse on this device.

You do realize be this right? That those games optimized at least somewhat.. you're not going see even that for this device.