Hi guys. I know this is just pie in the sky and opinion talk, but just wondering what the community things the Steamdeck 2 (which could be a long way a way of course) could be capable of? I’m waiting on my new iPhone 15 pro max and the power in that phone is pretty nuts, the new MacBook M3 chip mine blowing etc and intel look like they’re are trying to amp up there stuff to compete with that. Do we think a “2” will be able to compete with a PS5 for example? Great to know your thoughts!
IMO, valve will keep it’s recipe, not bleeding edge CPU arch at release, in at least 2 years, hybrid zenX+zenXc will still be an improvement over zen2, the GPU will be the last, or close to, IGPU from AMD (RDNA4 ?)
If they want to improve processing power, at least 6 total CPU core (2+4), 8Cu and a better and faster memory subsystem is essential, Z1 vs Z1x shown how much the memory subsystem can held back a chip. 24GB of LPDDR5X at 7500MHz over a 192bit bus (custom engineered memory controller like the ps5), HBM would be both overkill and overpriced, even if it’s no a bad Idea with an MCM architecture and could potentially resolve bandwidth bottleneck once and for all
Skiping pcie generation upgrade would be great, not much visible gain between pcie3,4 and 5 storage wise to justify the higher power draw
And in personnaly Hope for an USB 4 full compatibility to enable Real external docks, with speedy nvme and potentially egpu
Of course it’s only ideas based on what they already did and what is still lacking (IMHO) and without any connections to valve plans