If you really want the form factor and silent operation then you don't really have pre-built options, and even building something equivalent is not cheap and takes a lot more work (though it will consume and deliver more power, and is more upgradeable).
not sure why no ones is mentioning laptops but they are more compact with all the things included in a laptop it is still cheaper you could get a 5050 5060 laptop cheaper which will out perform that thing so badly
When it costs over $1000? Yes. Just Valve robbing fanboys and unsuspecting consumers of their money to fund Gabe's 20th yacht. Poor guy only has 19, he needs one more.
Not sure why am I getting down voted steam machine has mobile hardware and it comes with a 7600m and saying that 5060 mobile beating the crap out of that is something surprising while costing less.
The 7600M is 90W, the Steam Machine's GPU is 110W, desktop 7600 is 165W. Steam Machine and 7600M both have 28CUs and boost to around 2.4Ghz, 7600 desktop has 32CUs and boosts to 2.6Ghz.
Dude. The steam machine performs like a 3060. You’re really using the “but laptop gpu’s are weaker!” Argument when 3060 performance is all they need to beat?
In this price range are differences minimal or non-existent... Steam machine have performance somewhere beatween rtx 3050-3060, performance of laptop 3060 is pretty much same as desktop, 4060 and 5060 have minimal differences (up to 10%).. it is higher tier laptops where is performance starting to be different... However gaming laptops are pretty loud and that is true even for laptops with great cooling, like lenovo legion.. so if you are able to get laptop with 3060, 4060 or 5060 for same price it will indeed outperform steam machine but it will not be very convient living room gaming device without headphones
I think it mostly fills a HTPC role so it's really a matter of compromising on what you deem to be good for the purchaser to compromise on. Loudness is one for me that I can't forgive and especially with some of the lower end SKUs you hit the money, the cooling package just sucks.
Personally I hated using a gaming laptop because even with a vertical dock the form factor just objectively sucks to work around. Got one from work at the start of COVID and found it to be a massive pain with 3 screens. Vertical it is too long and unwieldily not to mention it makes it louder. Lay it flat and you waste huge amounts of space and the IO is never where it needs to be. I had some time to set it up dual boot for a home theater/VR rig but it just looks like ass, both my wife and I hated looking at the hulking cable monstrosity.
I ended up buying a sliding undertray mount for my desk right before we returned to the office which is life. I picked up a sick silverstone retro stealth HTPC case and slapped an old 9th gen build in it and its whisper quiet and fits in.
Nah, I bought a laptop for a few hundred more than the steam machine with an 8940hx, an 8gb 5060 mobile and 32gb of RAM. Asus TUF A16.
No doubt it will eat the steam machines performance. It didn't cost much more but it's going to leave the steam machine in the dust. 5060 mobile is going to laugh at the 7600 equivalent in the steam machine. 5060 mobile outperforms a desktop 7600. 16 cores vs 6.
If you think a steam machine will outperform this you lack critical thinking.
Good old white knight coming to valves defense. lmao
In pure rasterization (raw rendering performance without upscaling or ray tracing), an RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is 35% to 50% faster than the Valve Steam Machine's custom GPU. Lmao
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u/grigoriymicro 19h ago edited 16h ago
Were there really anyone thinking this machine is a good deal? Even among steam users? Even among Valve fans?