(Image credit: Valve) Steam Deck performance: the realistic expectations Or, perhaps more importantly, in any console running a similar APU. It's fast and there's plenty of it, but it's also going to be divided between CPU and GPU and cannot offer the bandwidth that graphics-specific GDDR6 memory can, which you'd find on any modern discrete graphics card in laptop or desktop. Valve is offering a happy blend of speed and capacity in the Steam Deck, but that LPDDR5 memory is a bit of a wildcard. While DDR5 will offer an even greater leap in performance, the lower-power mobile LPDDR5 memory still offers tremendous speeds. This new memory standard is quick, and outpaces most DDR4 memory found in modern gaming PCs. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB Type-C with DisplayPort 1.4 support
Stereo speakers, 3.5mm jack, dual mics, USB Type-C/Bluetooth To get a more complete idea of how the Steam Deck will perform, we need to look at what else is inside of it, especially the fancy new LPDDR5 memory, the subject of the next section.Ħ4GB eMMC / 256GB NVMe SSD / 512GB NVMe SSD To get a better sense of how the Steam Deck will perform, we have to look at the other specs, too. That is a general marker of this chip's compute performance, but again isn't entirely comparable with older or competing GPU generations. This RDNA 2 GPU will run at 1–1.6GHz and deliver up to 1.6 TFlops FP32 performance. However, such a slim number really won't make for a great experience in any ray-traced game. The RDNA 2 architecture means each of these CUs will be accompanied by an RT Core, which will nominally allow for ray tracing acceleration. This is formed by eight RDNA 2 Compute Units (CUs), making for 512 cores in total.
Then there's the GPU component the main driver for the gaming experience on the handheld. That's likely a move to keep this chip within a fairly restrictive power envelope, thus extending battery life and minimising thermal demand-the whole AMD APU in the Steam Deck requires just 4-15W of power. That's roughly equivalent to the Ry(opens in new tab) CPU (a $99 budget desktop CPU), although the Steam Deck CPU runs a touch slower at 2.4-3.5GHz. The Steam Deck features a four-core/eight-thread Zen 2 CPU.
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