The rumors came true, as the Valve handheld gaming PC is a fact and will be released from December with a price starting from 419€.
Τlast Thursday, the company presented the Steam deck, the gaming PC console which comes the December with a price starting at 419€. With the Steam deckThe Valve promises to run all your favorite Steam games, including AAA titles, on one mobile device.
He succeeds in that using AMD APU chip, which includes a processor and a graphics card built into the same chip. The processor is quad-core (8 threads) and has been built with the older architecture AMD Zen 2 which can achieve speeds up to 3.5GHZ.
The architecture has been used for the graphics RDNA2 of AMD, the same technology that powers the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The graphics card spans eight computing units RDNA2 with yield up to 1.6 Teraflops. This performance is slightly lower than that of the original graphics PlayStation 4, which was enough 1.84 Teraflops.
However, the Steam deck makes compromises in one area: The product does not support PC gaming in resolution 1080p. Instead, the Steam deck includes 7-inch LCD touch screen with analysis 1280 × 800 -similar to the Nintendo Swicth 720p screen.
The Steam deck by default does not use Windows, but the software of the company named Steam OS 3.0. By opening the device you can log in to your Steam account, download and install the games you want.
Valve notes, however, that "Steam Deck is a PC, so you can install third-party software or operating system if you want”. So there is a high probability that the device can be converted to the absolute handheld PC.
According to Valve, the Steam deck can operate from two to eight hours on a single charge. The device also includes 16GB LPDDR5 RAM, Bluetooth 5.0, dual-band WiFi modem, headphone jack and port USB-C with built-in DisplayPort 1.4, so it can be connected to a computer monitor.
However, the hardware is a bit heavy. The IGN had the opportunity to try the product, which as you can see is quite large in size, and weighs approx 630 gr of. It Nintendo Switch weighs less than 400 gr of -meaned in handheld mode.
Its price Steam deck starts at 419€, with internal memory 64GB eMMC PCIe Gen 2. However, you can achieve faster load times with their model 549€, which includes a disk 256GB PCIe Gen 3 NVME SSD. The model of 679€ increases his memory NVME SSD at 512GB while it also includes an upgraded screen with “glass without reflections”. All models include a card slot microSD for more storage space.
Η Valve also prepares a special dock for it Steam deck, which will include additional ports.
The company opened pre-orders from yesterday at noon on July 16, through a sales page at Steam. The product will be released first on USA, Canada and Europe in December, while its circulation in other areas will follow 2022.
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