Steam Deck is a Switch-like portable game PC launched by Valve. It was released in July 2021. Now, more than half a year has passed. Benchleaks broke the latest news, the Steam Deck portable game console of this gaming PC has now appeared on the Geekbench benchmarking platform. This AMD custom chip on Steam Deck is 4 cores and 8 threads, clocked at 2.8GHz, up to 3.5GHz, and 4MB L3 CACHE. The Steam Deck processor has a single-core score of 830 and a multi-core score of 3666. Even so, it is far from the latest mobile processors. This score can only be similar to the R7 3700U running score released by AMD in 2019.
The Steam Deck is powered by AMD’s Van Gogh APU, Zen2 architecture, which we can see in terms of system performance, thanks to the specifications of the CPU and compute units, ranging from 2.4GHz to a maximum of 3.5GHz. The computing unit uses an RDNA2 GPU integrated with 8CU, the frequency can be as low as 1.0GHz to 1.6GHz, and the performance is up to 1.6TFops FP32. The TDP of the entire SoC is 4 to 15W and supports 16GB RAM LPDDR5. Storage optional 64GB ROM eMMC and 256GB ROM, 512GB ROM NVMe SSD. According to the latest news, the game console will be officially shipped on February 25.
It is worth mentioning that Steam Deck was ready to be released in December last year, but due to the shortage of global supply chain and the popularity of pre-orders, it was not ready to be released until now. In terms of price, the starting price of 64GB eMMC is $399, and the top 512GB SSD luxury package $649.