I could totally see AMD working with valve to develop the next generation forking off the strix halo line. The power to performance is where it needs to be, and like, physically having the top of the line one right in front of me right now, I can play a game, not pushing it, for probably 2 hours on battery? Idk. I’ve got it set up for machine learning, but I should try gaming on it. But the real advantage of these chips isn’t the CPU/ GPU horse power its the unified memory. And that to me is the rub. Being able to share memory across CPU and GPU make the machine far more capable.
like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.
And I don’t think we would disagree that the Deck has been a wild success.
yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.
For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.
if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.
Didnt they do that for the deck? And I don’t think we would disagree that the Deck has been a wild success.
I could totally see AMD working with valve to develop the next generation forking off the strix halo line. The power to performance is where it needs to be, and like, physically having the top of the line one right in front of me right now, I can play a game, not pushing it, for probably 2 hours on battery? Idk. I’ve got it set up for machine learning, but I should try gaming on it. But the real advantage of these chips isn’t the CPU/ GPU horse power its the unified memory. And that to me is the rub. Being able to share memory across CPU and GPU make the machine far more capable.
like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.
yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.
For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.
if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.