A portable console developed by Valve. Steam Deck New details have emerged about it. Steam Deck was mentioned in detail at the company’s developer summit. The features of the console in question were announced to the participants.
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Steam Deck has a $400 price tag and an AMD Zen 2 architecture processor
Valve showed a detailed presentation about Steam Deck at its developer summit on Friday. 400 dollars console with a price tag, With AMD Zen 2 architecture It will come with a processor. The name of the AMD processor setup in the Steam Deck is called Aerith. Those who watched the presentation thought it might be a reference to the famous Aerith from Final Fantasy VII. Aerith SoC, 3 to 15 watts has a power consumption. A APU processor side of Aerith, 2.4 and at 3.5 GHz clock speeds it can work. 4 cores and 8 threads on the processor that comes with AMD’s Zen 2 architecture is used.
Steam Deck, At clock speeds of 1-1.6 GHz and AMD RDNA2 with architecture 1.6 teraflopsIt will come with the . Also in hand console 16 GB unified LPDDR5 RAM exists. This RAM to 88GB/sec bandwidth owner. valve, GPU for 1GB memory allocated, but this memory size can be 8GB‘until that you can come out stated. Valve also developed aerith specified by the processor. continuously at clock speeds and consistent stressed that it would work.
The company states that developers should avoid pushing the GPU if they want longer battery life. When you want to play Portal 2 without limiting the GPU, the console’s while the battery lasts for 4 hours, 30fps same game limited to 5-6 hours you can play. Valve is also helping developers to improve game performance, reduce storage and time users download games. low quality texture announced that it can upload versions with packages to Steam.
45 wattsSteam Deck, which comes with a power adapter of connected to adapter can be used in any way. Up to 2 handheld consoles 4K monitor can be connected. Also, the console 7.5 watts It is stated that it can supply power to external peripherals. on console USB 4 or Intelexclusive to Thunderbolt none. As a wireless connection wifi 5 technology (802. 11ac).
The entry-level version of the Steam Deck 400 dollars a price tag and 64GB‘ness eMMC has storage. NVMe SSDto get the version more money need to pay. Still, Valve says eMMC storage isn’t causing too much slowness and it’s just SSDfrom 12 percent (game load time) and 18 percent (console opening time) slow stated that.
The company also Nintendo SwitchIt plans to use a game save system similar to ‘. When you re-enter a game you stopped on Nintendo, you can continue where you left off. This suspend and resume feature Steam DeckIt will be in .
More information about the console:
- Not made for VR: “We certainly didn’t design and build the device for VR,” said Valve’s Lawrence Yang.
- 5G or LTE There are no plans yet for their configuration.
- Valve specifically designed the Steam Deck. Japan and Australia trying to make it to the fore in its markets.
- Your Steam Deck speakers It is calibrated before leaving the factory. In this way, a very good sound quality awaits users.
- After the Steam Deck’s release, the “Desktop” version of SteamWide screenIt is estimated that the ” mode will be updated more frequently.
- valve, the keyboard of the console APImultiple of IME Share with multiple language and emoji will support it.