The device can compete with the PS5.
Although today we associate the American company Valve mainly with the Steam platform, we must not forget its hardware unit. Indeed, three years ago, Steam Deck gave us, which quickly became a great success and mainly began the era of a portable computer, a segment that gradually joined many other companies.
Recently, however, it was assumed that Valve is preparing several new devices, including its own consoles using the Steamos operating system. And thanks to fresh news, we are one step closer to the official performance.
The valve on September 2 in the United States registered the Steam Frame brand twice. The first record applies, as a rule, computer equipment and software, but the second one is much more interesting, which specifically mentioned the game console. Thus, we can conclude that the console, which is so supposed to be called a steam frame.
It is worth noting that the Geekbench website recently appeared for a Valve APU with a code name Fremont, which can probably manage this device. It offers a processor based on a series of Hawk Point 2 laptops from AMD with 6 Zen 4 architecture nuclei, but without an integrated graphic chip. It would be a much stronger processor than what the current console offers with the Zen 2 architecture, although it has two cores less, but 6 should be enough.
But the video card is worse. The console should only offer the Radeon RX 7600, which is located at the Basic PlayStation 5 level (its GPU is very close to the Radeon RX 6700). Five years after the release of the current generation of consoles, this does not sound so great. In addition, this is the architecture of RDNA 3, which does not support the latest Upscal FSR 4.
Of course, the price will be the key, and we still do not know this. In any case, the growing information suggests that the official announcement may not be too far. At least if a steam frame is really a home console.
There is a second option, namely, that it could be a VR headset that we knew under the code name Deckard. This should be a separate wireless device, which is reported this year, with a relatively high price of $ 1,200. This will be the successor to the former headset of the valves index, which should bring a number of improvements.
What exactly the steamer, we will have to wait for it. Which valve device would you like the most?
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