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Steam Deck OLED announced (www.steamdeck.com)
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New OLED screen. New APU. And lots of small hardware improvements.

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The effiency part becomes a larger feature if it's a mobile device....

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    Sure, but not much of that battery improvement is coming from migrating the APU's process node. Moving from TSMC's 7nm process to their 6nm process is only an incremental improvement; a "half-node" shrink rather than a full-node shrink like going from their 7nm to their 5nm.

    The biggest battery improvement is (almost definitely) from having a 25% larger battery (40Whr -> 50Whr), with the APU and screen changes providing individually-smaller battery life improvements than that. Hence the APU change improving efficiency "a little".

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