Steam Deck is built on a custom Steam operating system and lets you play your entire Steam library. Valve promised a smooth experience, and IGN, during an exclusive hands-on playtest, said the console ran Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on the highest settings with minimal issue.
The Steam Deck features three storage models:
Base Model
64 GB eMMC $399
SSD Model
256 GB NVMe SSD $529
Bigger SSD Model
512 GB NVMe SSD $649
All three support microSD card expansions.
Here’s the Steam Deck spec list:
1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio) 7 inch LCD Screen AMD APU CPU: Zen 2 4c/8t, 2. 4-3. 5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32) GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1. 0-1. 6GHz (up to 1. 6 TFlops FP32) APU power: 4-15W 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM Bluetooth 5. 0 3. 5mm stereo headphone / headset jack Multichannel audio via DisplayPort over USB-C, standard USB-C, or Bluetooth 5. 0
Steam Deck will also have a dock that sells separately and connects to additional display devices, e.g. TVs or monitors.
Finally, Valve said Steam Deck will let you download any PC app to the console, including other game launchers and non-steam games. How this will change the PC gaming space will be sure to be interesting, being able to play AAA PC titles and indies on the go with some reasonable power behind the hardware will be a breath of fresh air for some.
[Source: Valve]
