As we informed you on Thursday shortly after the official unveiling in of this articleValve suddenly came out with an upgraded version of the popular handheld console Steam Deck. However, this isn’t anything along the lines of Steam Deck 2.0, but rather a minor, albeit significant, update that brings OLED displayimproved cooling and also a slightly more advanced processor.
Valve boasted in press materials 30-50% battery extension, and as it is well known, the efficiency of the used hardware tends to be the most important part of advances of this type, apart from the battery itself. Not only does the display consume less, but it also uses energy significantly better slightly modified APU.
The manufacturer of the chip for the new Steam Deck is, of course, again AMD. Codenamed SoC Sephiroth it reuses the processor architecture Zen 2 and architecture RDNA 2 for integrated graphics, but what has changed is the manufacturing process.
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While the original “Van Gogh” APU was manufactured with TSMC’s 7nm technology, the new Steam Deck uses OLED more modern 6nm process. Therefore, although the TDP value remains in the same range from 4 to 15 W, the actual consumption during gaming should be lower.
Moving on to the specifications, the chip offers four CPU cores and eight threads. The maximum frequency is 3.45 GHz. The GPU relies on 512 stream processors and a clock speed of 1.6 GHz. The new Steam Deck also boasts a little bit more faster operating memory – 16GB RAM works with 6,400 MT/s instead of the original 5,500 MT/s. Again, we are talking about LPDDR5 technology.
The new Steam Deck OLED will available from November 16 this year. It will be sold in configurations with 512GB SSD and 1TB SSD, while the price is 569 euros and 679 euros (14,000 CZK and 16,650 CZK in conversion).
2023-11-11 10:00:00
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