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The USB-C port also offers external display support for up to two 4K monitors at 60Hz (using Display Stream Compression), and Valve says itвЂ™ll offer USB 3 Gen 2 вЂњif you opt for half the display bandwidth.вЂќ The optional dock (which has yet to be pictured or go on preorder) will also offer Gigabit Ethernet.ДЄnd if you opt to play on a TV or monitor, youвЂ™ll probably be happy to hear the first full confirmation that Valve is supporting AMDвЂ™s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling with the Steam Deck. With a 45-watt power supply, Valve says the Steam Deck can charge and play at the same time, and power 7.5-watt worth of external peripherals.

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(But where Xbox developers are likely targeting 1080p, 1440p and near-4K respectively, the portable Steam Deck runs at 720p and 800p resolution.) Designed to dock and stream

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ThatвЂ™s similar to MicrosoftвЂ™s Smart Delivery system for the Xbox One, Xbox One X and Xbox Series X/S, which routes the proper version of a game to each console. If you limit it to 30 FPS, youвЂ™re going to be playing for 5-6 hours,вЂќ Valve told IGN in August.ДЄnother optimization: Valve revealed today that developers can upload versions of their games with lower-fidelity texture packages to SteamвЂ™s Depot to improve performance and reduce the amount of storage and time it takes a user to download a game. That could make a big difference: вЂњYou can play Portal 2 for four hours on this thing. вЂњWe didnвЂ™t place any artificial limits on how much power the APU can consume.вЂќ As one specific tactic, ValveвЂ™s suggesting that games cap their framerate to save battery. Valve does warn that developers may need to avoid pushing the GPU too hard if they want longer battery life. вЂњIf youвЂ™re in Florida in July, you may run out of thermal headroom,вЂќ he says, but even then Valve says itвЂ™ll try to throttle downloads and transfer speeds before it throttles your game performance. Valve says the chipвЂ™s designed to run continually and consistently at its quoted clockspeeds: вЂњThe performance your game gets in the first ten seconds is likely to be the same performance you get two hours from now, or even indefinitely if youвЂ™re plugged into the wall,вЂќ says ValveвЂ™s Yazan Aldehayyat, adding that the systemвЂ™s designed to perform the same docked, undocked, charging or not, even while downloading games or at an elevated temperature. вЂњIf youвЂ™re in Florida in July, you may run out of thermal headroomвЂќ

While thereвЂ™s only 1GB of dedicated video memory, Valve says the GPU can access up to 8GB of that shared memory as needed. It interfaces with 16GB of unified LPDDR5 memory, with a total of 88GB/s of bandwidth. HereвЂ™s the Steam DeckвЂ™s entire block diagram, so you can see how the whole system comes together around that chip:

ItвЂ™s an APU with a power envelope of between 4 and 15 watts, and it contains both an 4-core, 8-thread AMD Zen 2 CPU that runs between 2.4-3.5GHz, and 8 AMD RDNA 2 compute units worth of graphics clocked between 1 and 1.6GHz, for a total of 1.6 teraflops of raw graphical compute. The AMD chip inside the Steam Deck has a name: itвЂ™s the Aerith SOC, a clear reference to the famous Aerith from Final Fantasy VII. Here are the highlights - unless, of course, youвЂ™d like to watch ValveвЂ™s entire livestream or breakout sessions for yourself.

ItвЂ™s akin to the Nintendo Switch of gaming PCs, and thereвЂ™s a lot we already knew about the delayed handheld from its announcement, our trip to ValveвЂ™s headquarters, and an official teardown.

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On Friday, PC gaming giant Valve invited the developer community to learn more about its Steam Deck, a $400 handheld gaming PC with a comparatively powerful AMD chip.

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