Upcoming APUs sporting Zen 4 cores and RDNA 3+ graphics are claimed to be much faster than existing chips, and look ideal for handhelds.

Honestly I think it’s probably too soon for the kind of significant performance increase Valve is wanting for the Steam Deck 2. Not to mention that the OLED deck just came out. That said, even if these chips don’t make it to a Deck 2 I’m sure we’ll see them in competing devices.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19261005

  • warm@kbin.earth
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    7 months ago

    It depends on efficiency, it’s all good and well having more performance, but if the battery life is only 2 hours it’s useless. I imagine Valve will wait a couple years yet.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      More performance often means that you can throttle it to a greater degree and hopefully still get more performance at a similar or better efficiency.

      • warm@kbin.earth
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        7 months ago

        Yeah you are not wrong, but why have a more expensive chip just to throttle it, better to keep the cost of the deck down so more people can afford it.

      • filister@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Isn’t it what Apple is doing? They downclock some of their components to extend battery life and make their machines run less noisy, which in my opinion is a clever move. As much as I hate Apple, I have to admit that their hardware is good.