Steam Deck has quietly become a reasonably capable ray tracing handheld
Steam Deck has quietly become a reasonably capable ray tracing handheld
Oliver Mackenzie investigates ray tracing on the Steam Deck - is it viable, and what are the best games to try?
Left as soon as I saw the Asus shilling.
Yeah I'll be sticking with my Steam Deck lol, this thing is damn near perfect. Asus has been pulling some shitty stuff with their PC components too lately, so that makes me a lot less likely to even consider them as a company. Back in the day they were one of my go-to brands, not so much now though.
Man, same. I used to only consider Asus motherboards when I built a PC because I'd had such good experiences with them.
I had an ex girlfriend who owned one of their laptops, which was a nice machine. I owned their 7" Nexus Android tablet. I'm sure I owned other stuff as well.
Now that word has gotten around that they're voiding warranties over bogus reasons, I definitely won't be giving them anymore business. That is really disappointing though.
@FartsWithAnAccent @ylai @Veraxus Asus has been enshitifying for a couple of years now. I used to get their ROG phones year after year, until they sent me the last one without the Kunai cover (I bought the phone with the controller) and when I reached out to them they wanted me to send the whole thing back, phone and all, to determine if they would send it back with the cover to me. Beyond ridiculous. Returned it, got a refund, never looked back.
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Will be interesting to see what an eventual Deck 2 is capable of since AMD seems to be at the lower end of ray tracing efficiency compared to Nvidia (at least, from the outside looking in for someone with an RX 480...)
Do we know enough about the next gen Steam Deck to be able to make assumptions about what GPU brand might be used or whether Nvidia would still be ahead of AMD in this area?
Unless Valve can either find or pay a company that does a custom packaging of a Nvidia GPU with x86 (like the Intel Kaby Lake-G SoC with an in-package Radeon), very unlikely. The handheld size makes an “out of package” discrete GPU very difficult.
And making Nvidia themselves warm up to x86 is just unrealistic at this point. Even if e.g. Nintendo demanded, the entire gaming market — see AMD’s anemic recent 2024Q1 result from gaming vs. data center and AI — is unlikely to be compelling enough for Nvidia to be interested in x86 development, vs. continuing with their ARM-based Grace “superchip.”
Nvidia does not make x86 SoCs. Even if Valve goes with a separate Nvidia dGPU like in laptops, they would have to abandon their last 10+ years of Linux work, and goals of having a platform which isn't controlled by Microsoft.