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Re:Valve Steam Deck by rasz on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:52PM (#27850565)
This APU is slower than base PS4, and ~2x slower than 8 year old GTX 760.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4z4igRnlLQ

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by Strom on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:53AM (#27855707)
The APU is certainly not slower than a PS4, it has Zen 2 cores. The GPU might have fewer flops but it has a much newer architecture, so it could easily be faster. Just comparing flops across different architectures isn't an accurate way of determining GPU gaming performance.
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Re:Valve Steam Deck by rasz on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:01PM (#27859169)
Do you expect this 15W APU to be faster than full TDP Desktop AMD Ryzen 5700G? The "Fastest Integrated Graphics Ever" 13 days ago https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-review? 5700G reaches GTX760 parity in some games like Witcher3, while in others like Overwatch its medium for APU while dedicated gpu runs same framerate at Ultra.
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Re:Valve Steam Deck by Strom on Sunday July 18, 2021 @12:56PM (#27874464)
It'll be interesting to see. RDNA2 is definitely a significant upgrade over Vega. Also I would assume most of that desktop TDP goes towards the CPU. The LPDDR5 RAM will also help the GPU in the Steam Deck.
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