Steam Deck
www.steamdeck.com
November 16

New OLED screen. New APU. And lots of small hardware improvements.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Just when the competition in the handheld space was ramping up, Valve comes back to dunk on them again.

    It’s pretty awesome that they also cut the price on the old model. The $400 LCD version now comes with a 256gb NVME SSD rather than the slow eMMC it came with.

  • Haru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Would there be any reason for anyone, like myself, who doesn’t already own a steam deck to not get an OLED model? I’m definitely interested.

    • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Depending on when you pull the trigger, 2/3 of your options will be OLED anyway.

      They’re phasing out the original LCD 64 and 512 models and only retaining the 256 LCD. The new lineup is 256 LCD, 512 OLED, and 1TB OLED. Permanent price cuts are in effect for the 64 and the 512 LCD until they run out of stock.

    • Juki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The cheapest 64GB one on clearance is a steal, just stick your own m.2 in there later

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Man, and I only just got mine… And considering the insides are all changed, I doubt I can simply upgrade my current one by switching out the screen and battery.

  • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This is alll I ever wanted from steam deck. Time to put my money where my mouth is

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    44·
    1 year ago

    Let me guess, only available for North Americans and maybe East Asia as usual. Fuck the rest of the planet, am I right?

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    It is written that the APU on the OLED model is 6nm and on the old one is 7nm but all performance numbers are the same including power consumption, am I missing anything?

    • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Not sure what you’re seeing with regard to the power consumption, but it specifically mentions that the APU is more efficient (which tracks with the die shrink). Between that, the OLED display, and a bigger battery going in, the system should last longer on a charge while performance remains the same.

      • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Yes, read the review of the Verge and it seems that it is slightly more power efficient and runs cooler, so this would help with GPU stuttering to some extent.

        I was just checking the specs on Valve’s website. And they had listed the APU consumption and the numbers were exactly the same, which led to my confusion.

        I guess the screen is absolutely gorgeous too. I was planning to upgrade my GPU next year and buy the 4070 Ti Super both for gaming and productivity but now I am feeling a bit unsure about it.