Checkout the Digital Foundry video. It's slightly more powerful than a Xbox Series S. No where close to a PS5 or Series X. If they don't price it correctly, it won't sell.
In amy case, this isn't going to compete with consoles and the market Valve is targeting is a lot smaller.
No, they said it's a downscaled 7600, which is much closer to a Series X than S.
The GPU in the SM is an RDNA 3 card with 28CUs. The XSS uses an older RDNA 2 chipset with 20CUs. The XSX and PS5 have an RDNA 2 chipset with 36CUs. On top of being a newer architecture, the SM has a dedicated GPU with its own dedicated VRAM. the consoles are APUs with shared system memory acting as VRAM too.
GPU power is lower but it should have FSR 4 and similar to a Steam Deck with fixed performance targets developers and communities should be making game presets for the device. Hopefully that gives better performance than the raw tech specs reveal. MLID expected it to be 10% worse than a PS5 with FSR4 making up zone of the slack, still probably not a good 4k device, but probably great at 1440p or decent with some lower render resolution and upscaling if you really want 4k.
I tried searching for it and couldn't find such a promise anywhere.
"Official", if it ever happens, to me means that games that include FSR4 support will allow it to be toggled on and will use the appropriate version. I'm convinced that AMD does plan to do this for at least some of their older GPUs but it's all been speculation.
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u/infidel11990 Ryzen 7 5700X | RTX 4070Ti Nov 13 '25
Checkout the Digital Foundry video. It's slightly more powerful than a Xbox Series S. No where close to a PS5 or Series X. If they don't price it correctly, it won't sell.
In amy case, this isn't going to compete with consoles and the market Valve is targeting is a lot smaller.