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Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's the OLED Deck specs for comparison:

APU

6 nm AMD APU

APU power: 4-15W

(which contains:)

CPU:

Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz

(up to 448 GFlops FP32)

GPU:

8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.6GHz

(1.6 TFlops FP32)

...

RAM:

16 GB LPDDR5 on-board RAM

(6400 MT/s quad 32-bit channels)

Storage:

Steam Deck 512GB NVMe SSD

Steam Deck 1TB NVMe SSD

Both include high-speed microSD card slot

EDIT: More details

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Steam-Deck-OLED-APU-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.799065.0.html

So basically, the Deck and Switch 2 are roughly inverted in compartitive hardware power... the Deck has a more powerful CPU, the Switch 2 has a more powerful GPU.

EDIT 2:

also the Deck has 33% more RAM.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Consoles can also do more with less since the games are (unless they're shitty ports) designed for that specific hardware.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yep, this is always a factor, even with PC games.

    For example: the Switch 2 uses an ARM CPU.

    That is different in significant ways than an x86/64 CPU.

    How the system allocates memory is also... a confounding factor.

    Sometimes you have just one kind of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU. Sometimes there are different kinds of RAM for the CPU and GPU.

    It looks like the Switch 2 is sharing LPPDR5 RAM between the CPU and GPU, as the Deck does... on the Deck, you can use CryoUtils to manually adjust how much is allocated to which.

    The Switch 2 will... maybe have a standardized allocation for all games, or allow certain games to adjust the allocation.

    And then if course there is port quality, and proton...

    It gets pretty complicated to estimate just purely from specs alone.

    Hence why the PC centric crowd is so much into empirical testing via benchmarks.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That low ram is going to hurt the new switch pretty quickly, I think. I wouldn't get a newish pc/laptop if it didn't have at least 16g ram these days. They're going to struggle again with ports.

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