[terribleperson]

I think calling the hardware generations out of date when it performs on par with a PS5 on new games is a bit inaccurate.

I would, admittedly, be interested in an anticheat that reboots the machine for deck into a secure mode.

[saltamimi]

The Zen 4 cores in it is Ryzen 7000 Series, we're on 9000 series.

The GPU is on par with the 3060 12GB and RX 7000 series GPUs which are older.

The PS5 is six years old! This is a brand new machine!

[rtkwe]

The age of hardware is getting less and less relevant though as time goes on. The differences between generations visually is getting pretty small and good enough doesn't need the latest most powerful features. It was designed to a benchmark of good enough graphics for a reasonable price then the price got blown up by AI datacenters prebuying years worth of production of memory with the insane firehose of money they're able to access.

[saltamimi]

I just don't see a Linux gaming machine being a reference piece of hardware for big name publishers when they are making Windows-only games.

The Steam Survey is a better indicator of what you should target vs. something like the Steam Machine or Deck IMO.

[rtkwe]

It's not about a consistent target like consoles and more that even older hardware performs acceptably with minor concessions to graphics these days. People were already primed to accept that trade off before the AI boom exploded memory prices because crypto miners were buying up loads of cards for alt coins that didn't have ASICs available.

I can get something like 80% of the graphics with 20% of the GPU because the places where games are really pushing graphics out now are really resource intensive. Ray tracing is amazing but we got REALLY REALLY good at making games look good without it too.

[pkulak]

> it performs on par with a PS5

Wait, really? I looked at the specs and saw like 2/3 the CUs of a PS5.

[terribleperson]

The benchmarks I've seen - only a few, and only because my partner was watching them - show it basically neck and neck with a PS5. Not a PS5 Pro, to be clear, and a PS5 slim is only $650, but the Steam Machine isn't underpowered in console gaming terms.

[ErneX]

But better CUs I assume, Steam Machine is RDNA3, PS5 is RDNA2.

[lowbloodsugar]

Price point is PS5 Pro which technically is RDNA2 but has back ported features from RDNA3 & 4. It has 60 cores. Consensus is PS5 Pro outperforms steam machine by 20-30% on graphics.