Deck developer, Pierre-Loup Griffais, has detailed that Valve is targeting 800p and 30Hz for games running on the new Steam Deck handheld gaming PC. Valve has been slowly drip-feeding information about the new Steam Deck, via its IGN best buds, over the past week and has recently published a bunch of information about the key hardware at the heart of the device.As well as detailing the process and performance of having part of your game library sat on an SD card, and the fact that Valve has still yet to find a game the Deck can't handle, key people on the Steam Deck project have talked a bit more about the actual performance of the device itself.Thanks to running on the latest AMD APU—a quad-core Zen 2 CPU with an 8 CU RDNA 2—Valve believes it's got enough power in the device to cope with the rigours of modern gaming, albeit at a 30 fps level. And it feels like the current trends towards high-res, high-fps gaming is actually helping. « If people are still valuing high frame rates and high resolutions on different platforms, » says Griffais, « I think that content will scale down to our 800p, 30Hz target really well. »
Deck developer, Pierre-Loup Griffais, has detailed that Valve is targeting 800p and 30Hz for games running on the new Steam Deck handheld gaming PC. Valve has been slowly drip-feeding information about the new Steam Deck, via its IGN best buds, over the past week and has recently published a bunch of information about the key hardware at the heart of the device.
