Steam Deck – release date, price, specs, and benchmarks
Valve is entering the handheld gaming PC market with the Steam Deck, which launches on February 25. Prices start at $399 USD / £349 GBP for the 64GB version, but you can grab a Steam Deck specced with 256GB or 512GB of NVMe storage for $529 USD / £459 GBP and $649 USD / £569 GBP, respectively.
In terms of specs, the Steam Deck is powered by a custom AMD APU built on the Zen 2 microarchitecture. However, this particular chip features RDNA 2 graphics. This is the same microarchitecture used to power team red's best graphics cards, which should help it run everything from indies to the latest AAA games. Storage capacity will vary between models, but they all come equipped with 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
Instead of Windows 11, the Steam Deck comes with Valve's new SteamOS 3. It's a Linux-based OS, but you'll be able to install other operating systems if you'd like. However, Proton compatibility has dramatically improved to the point that you probably won't need to.
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