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The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (15 children)

Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.

Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.

I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they'd normally have halved the cost of a larger one.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??

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  • [+] -7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    some ipad pro models have 16 combined ram?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I mean that is true, but still nowhere near the same thing as 16GB ram and 16GB dedicated vram. This thing has a 9070xt and a 600W PSU, so the other commenters claim that they have a higher specced tablet is just kind of absurd, especially since I don't believe there's a tablet in existence with discrete graphics. And even if it did, beating a recent gen card like a 9070 would be a really tall order.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    To be fair, the dedicated ram argument is largely moot on Apple ARM chips as they turned the shared memory problem into an advantage. But Apple will never get out of their own way with gaming. They have some very compelling chips now that could absolutely trounce the switch 2 and easily keep up with Sony and Microsoft’s offerings. The tiling nature of mobile GPUs is a hell of a magic trick that enables what is frankly sorcery.

    But Apple is not willing to do what the gaming community demands to get by so they will absolutely never succeed there.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    I'll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it's because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.

    But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.

    So I think YMMV depending on the game. I've got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    In my case for cyberpunk it was all on my desktop, SSD vs spinning disk. For my deck it was Elden ring and one other game which I can't remember. But typically most everything runs fine off the SD card.

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