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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@alyx
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@Cleanears
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We're gonna need a bigger case... RTX 4090 size comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IOBFl5SQVM
This is worse then I thought...
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@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
I also like playing from bed and am very glad I got the OLED version instead of the regular one
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@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.
@LukeAlmighty @Kagekokoro @Zerglingman @Cleanears @TornadoOfTerror @raptor
>that most of the power GPUs eat are wasted
There is some truth to that. A lot of the "ultra" settings on modern games are placebo crap, that use a lot more power for no noticeable difference. With textures, for example, the highest tier settings is usually an uncompressed/unoptimized version of the same textures of the immediate lower tier setting. Same resolution, no visible difference in game, but one gives you that sweet placebo.
