idk who that guy is but I couldn’t think of how to word the title, sorry

︀︀• Custom AMD Zen 4 CPU

︀︀• 6 cores / 12 threads

︀︀• RDNA 3 GPU

︀︀• 28 Compute Units

︀︀• 8GB GDDR6 VRAM

︀︀• 16GB DDR5 RAM

︀︀• 512GB or 2TB NVMe SSD

︀︀• SteamOS

︀︀• Wi-Fi 6E

︀︀• Bluetooth 5.3

︀︀• Gigabit Ethernet

︀︀• HDMI 2.0 + DisplayPort 1.4

︀︀• microSD expansion

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 minutes ago

    It’s a shame it’s only 8GB of vram. But that was already constrained before the memory apocalypse.

    • inlandempire@jlai.luOP
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Shit you’re right, I got misled by whoever shared it to me saying it leaked, I’ll update the title

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Lots of people estimated ~$800 based on the specs and Valve’s statement that it will be priced similar to a comparable PC. But that was several months ago, so probably $900-1000 by now.

    • rtxn@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Nobody knows the final retail price. Probably not even Valve. Educated guesses are in the 600-1200 USD range. Valve have already said that it wouldn’t be a loss leader, and that they’d made painful sacrifices to ensure an affordable price.

  • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Do we know how this will compare to the rdna 3 stack? I’m assuming somewhere between 7700 and 7800?

    • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 hours ago

      No, weaker. It’s an overclocked 7600M (laptop GPU). There’s many leaks that show that Valve specifically targeted a low cost by using laptop components that AMD couldn’t sell.

      The CPU is also weak: it has 2 big cores and 4 little cores. Estimated cost of materials (before the RAM shortage) was ~425 USD, now the cost of materials is ~550 USD

      • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        So I have basically a whole pc leftover, 11600k + 7700xt from upgrades over the last year or two which is why I was asking. I guess that’d be fairly more powerful. 4k felt pretty bad on it though.

        Edit: I’m assuming fsr is the “4k 60” req. I wonder if that’s going to include framegen?

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        So, $ 633 - $ 715 if they go by average markup margins (15-30%). But that’s a big IF. Seeing as this is a low volume product compared to giants like Apple or Dell for example, I would expect the possibility of even greater numbers. I am assuming Valve is underestimating the initial demand and does not plan to market the product outside of their current countries and is not planning to advertise the product heavily.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Anybody else mildly surprised it isn’t based on an APU with unified memory, like a cheaper/slower Framework Desktop?

    • SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com
      3·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think there are any ‘cheap’ Strix Halo chips out there, Valve probably got a massive discount (relatively) by using previous gen. laptop parts

      • grue@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        They say it’s a custom design, so surely they could’ve custom-designed it to be unified rather than discrete if they wanted. I guess maybe they were trying to make sure it would only be bought by gamers by deliberately making it less versatile for AI?

        • SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com
          2·
          30 minutes ago

          Custom in this case doesn’t really need to carry any weight either, it could be a simple voltage bump, clock bump, laser cutting cores etc. and they would still call it custom.

          It’s not a “from the ground up” custom chip. Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die, especially if they want to have a relatively beefy GPU (somewhere below Radeon 8060S, but above Radeon 780M).

          I would imagine this gives the best perf./buck from Valve’s POV, without costing an arm and a leg