Do you remember when it used to be cool to have 4 slim GPUs in one PC?

Now, you have 4 GPUs packed into one fat box instead.

Remember, when this video was a joke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0frNP0qzxQc
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@LukeAlmighty @Zerglingman @alyx @Kagekokoro @Cleanears 4090ti will be around 600w probably

@TornadoOfTerror @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears
We're gonna need a bigger case... RTX 4090 size comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IOBFl5SQVM

This is worse then I thought...

@LukeAlmighty @TornadoOfTerror @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @Cleanears
I've been starting to thing about the whole external GPU thing. Maybe instead of a fad for laptops, maybe more work should be done on the interface and make it a legitimate standard. I think we've reached the point where it would save us space for desktops.

@alyx @LukeAlmighty @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @Cleanears nah i hope APUs are the future than this dumbsterfire

@TornadoOfTerror @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears
It's funny, that we live in the same age, whre modern graphics cards eat 450 W, while a 45W deck can play all the games anyway.

Yes, I know, that these cards are not for gaming, but it seems, that separation of gaming and industrial graphics cards is inevitable at this point.

@LukeAlmighty @TornadoOfTerror @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears steaming poopdeck plays shit at 720p and 30fps and looks like shit! you can't cheat physics

@raptor @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror
Even for semi-modern games like GTA-V it can manage 60 FPS at high setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDX2fWQ-OU

I do tend to set low details and 30 FPS for sake of battery, but the power is there.

@LukeAlmighty @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror gta5 came out for the 360, its not modern at all. 30fps is pitiful and the deck is not portable anyway

@raptor @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror
Ok, you can hate all you can, but:
1) any games that came after 360 are shit anyway.
2) I am seriously happy I bought it. That point cannot be argued.

@LukeAlmighty @alyx Your satisfaction with the purchase has nothing to do with objective analysis of the capabilities of the Hardware

Im Happy to own a switch, it is, however, inferior in computing capabilities than my pc...

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@Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor
Objective analysis is, that it handeled every game I tried.

@LukeAlmighty @alyx @LukeAlmighty @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor at what resolution, what fps? with no issues at all? How long does the battery life of the deck last?

@Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor
Do you really expect me to argue levels of details?

Ok, Steam deck is not powerful enough to do full ray-tracing to get that one pixel from FFAC05 to more correct FFAC06.

I don't care about details, when I can play GTA V in bed.

@LukeAlmighty @alyx fair enough, you dont care about it, but the point still stands

I also like playing from bed and am very glad I got the OLED version instead of the regular one

@LukeAlmighty @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor

@Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @alyx @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor
The point is invalid, because it does not apply.

I am saying, that most of the power GPUs eat are wasted on modern gaming.

And I think, that this exact thesis is proven by experience on the Deck.