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The most powerful Windows portable set-top box. Valve reveals details of the hybrid processor at the heart of the Steam Deck

Valve has revealed new details about the platform behind the Steam Deck.

The most powerful Windows portable set-top box.  Valve reveals details of the hybrid processor at the heart of the Steam Deck

So the codename for AMD’s APU is Aerith. It is believed to belong to the Van Gogh line. It has four processor cores of the Zen 2 architecture, operating at frequencies of 2.4-3.5 GHz. SMT support is present. Valve says that in this case, the engineers chose the most stable frequencies, without chasing the maximum values.

The same applies to the GPU, the frequencies of which lie in the 1.0-1.6 GHz range, which is very small for the RDNA 2 architecture. The graphics core has eight CUs, which equates to 512 stream processors. As a result, the TDP of the hybrid processor is 15 W.

The most powerful Windows portable set-top box.  Valve reveals details of the hybrid processor at the heart of the Steam Deck

The console also received 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory with a bandwidth of 88 GB / s. It is also worth remembering that different Steam Decks are equipped with different drives. The basic version with 64 GB of memory offers only a fairly slow eMMC, which is why the load time in games relative to older versions will increase by 12.5% ​​on average, and the OS itself will load 25% slower.

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