Few parties today need Steam Deck, Valve’s PC-inspired handheld game console. And it is that after the last statements of a developer, we were able to know new details about its operation and its characteristics. With the delay in its production caused among other things by the lack of semiconductors in the industry, the first Valve console which integrates an AMD APU processor, can meet the autonomy expectations that everyone places on it. What is the battery life Steam bridge?
The developer, who remains anonymous in his statements to Boiling Steam, gives details on the characteristics of the Steam Deck in its version of dev Kit, its hardware as well as the general user experience. Many details remain secret under NDA.
Steam Deck and its battery: silent and with up to 5 hours of autonomy
One of the most interesting data when it comes to a portable device, whatever its purpose, is autonomy. According to the statements obtained by Bollind Steam, the duration and management of said autonomy of the new Valve console varies between 2 hours and 5 hours, where this time is linked to the use of the load of the APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) which integrates Valve on your Steam Deck and it discharges the battery at high charge.
It seems that depending on the load of the AMD APU that integrates Steam Deck, depending on the graphics level of the game in question, the autonomy of this laptop varies enormously. We can understand that if we play an Indie 2D game we will get an approximate battery life of about 5 hours, while if we play a game with a high graphics load like the latest AAA and it makes the Steam Deck work at its maximum performance. it will decrease from this to just 2 o’clock.
We also believe that this may not be the only factor causing its short battery life. Other factors, such as its seven-inch LCD screen, are surely to blame for these consumptions which shorten the life of the autonomy of the Valve console.
Another of the details known in this interview is the sound level of the Steam Deck, a point to be taken into account where one cannot ignore that although Valve’s new device keeps mounting hardware on a laptop. , the statements made are really interesting. The Steam Deck has a “barely noticeable” sound level under normal use, but loudness values at high load were not disclosed, only at idle, so this advice could change significantly.
What has not been specified are its temperatures, which given the hardware it implements should not be low, although not worrying, since we know very well that RDNA 2 as an architecture is a obvious jump of 50% compared to RDNA 1 and more than 100% efficiency compared to Vega. In this aspect, this is where there is the most waiting with this Steam Deck, since it is precisely its iGPU that makes the difference with its competitors.
