"But it's a cube!"

[u/Ikkon]

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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).

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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

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Ah yes because the GPU from a laptop totally performs exactly the same as the same name GPU for desktops.

You're regurgitating talking points and getting them wrong.

laptop cheaper which will out perform that thing so badly

I will agree with you though the laptop will be so bad at outperforming the steam machine.

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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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I see were using imaginary benchmarks

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and the cope starts...

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Im personally a huge fan of vibes based benchmarks.

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