Just wondering if releasing the steam deck 2 on arm would be a huge deal. I know arm is famous for being more efficient, but would it still be better, even when using FEX?

  • Turtle@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Valve are doing the ARM experiment with the Steam Frame.

    They mentioned not wanting to release a Steam Deck 2 until there was a significant performance upgrade available.

    In my opinion an ARM chip with the FEX translation overhead isn’t going to be it just yet, it will probably be another AMD SoC.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can’t know for sure. Valve probably doesn’t even know. But I think it’s highly likely.

    What would change? Better battery life. This was a big focus on SD and SD OLED as well. It’s why they were never particularly powerful, and still aren’t.