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Steam Deck OLED Is the Battery King (linuxgamingcentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Direct link to the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkpJ1qPUVA

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

The battery is insane, I was emulating some gba games and getting like 12 hours minimum

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Damn I emulated pong and it lasted 24 hours.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

You played pong for 24 hours?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Pooooooooooong, if you will.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

To add to the off-normal usage scenarios, I mostly play my SD at home and when doing so Stream from my main rig. In this method, the battery life is incredible. It’s basically just running the network card, screen, and registering button inputs, and it really just sips on the energy usage.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

As an aside to the great content of the article, I really want to say, how refreshing it is to open a web page without 700 prompts and videos bombarding me. The page loaded before my browser were open.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was gonna say "turns out adding a larger battery makes your device last longer, who knew!" but that discounts the fact that the OLED screen and smaller soc also help quite a bit.

If I remember right, the newer SoCs, especially on the newer Zen 3 core, are not that much more power efficient until they're being pushed to their limits. When the cpu isnt the bottleneck the two cores are similar.

this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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