It seems that Valve has opened the Pandora box with SteamAnd the portable console market has automatically revolutionized the possibility of avoiding the harmful Windows operating system to go to Steamos, specially designed for the Steam bridge but optimized for portable consoles. And the first performance comparisons are already coming, demonstrating that for example a Asus Rog Ally X exceeds 20% for the Steam bridge At TDP equality, just to modify Windows for Steamos.
Windows, in general, is not a bad operating system. It is the most used in the world because of its great versatility, because it mainly serves everything, from programming to the game, passing by everything that is intermediate. But of course, as they say “who covers a lot” and certainly sees that there are other much better alternatives for games. This is more or less what is happening with the consoles: how can a lower material console work as much or better than a more powerful PC? Well, for the optimization of the operating system, as well as games specially designed for its equipment. It is a situation which, although it is not identical, it is quite similar.
We are wonders on portable consoles with Windows
It is shown that, when we settled in a portable console which originally came with windows, performance and versatility improvements are more than notable. With the official announcement of Steam OS 3.8 on portable devices that are not Steam Deck, many have not lost their time to try it on their consoles and see what results he gives at the time of the truth, and in recent days, we have already seen news from Asus Rog Ally and Lenovo Legion performing the Valve operating system.
However, now the Youtuber and Prime has pushed a little further, demonstrating with empirical data which, even in equal conditions (that is to say with the same TDP configured in the processor), an Asus Rog Ally X is capable of overcoming the performance of a steam gaming bridge up to 20%, and that is to say.
And we are not faced with an increase in nimium yield, it is that 20% are a lot. By default, we had 3.8 offered no control on the TDP beach of the Asus Rog Ally X, and although it was quite desirable, Eta Prime used a plugin called “simpledeckytdp” which unlocked the configurable TDP beach of the 4-40W console, including intermediate levels.
Since the steam game can only operate a maximum of 15 W of TDP, the YouTuber has limited the power of the ROG Ally X also to these same 15W before likely to compare performance in the Games. In some games, the improvement in performance brush 10%, but in titles such as Cyberpunk 2077, the Asus Rog Ally X was able to offer 53 IPS compared to the 44 IPS of the steam bridge, which represents a difference of 20%, and it is an incredible change. Now imagine if it was not limited to 15W.
In other titles such as Black Myth Wukong, the difference in favor of Asus Rog Ally X was 12%, and in the shadow of the Tomb Raider about 10%. It is likely that there are titles in which this equality of TDP The Asus console will lose (in the comments they ask to look at it with the new Monster Hunter Wilds, although he is not yet verified for Steam Deck), but of course, it looks great.
