A few weeks ago the Valve console appeared on the market, however, it’s no secret that a Steam Platform V2 sooner or later it could appear on the market. Therefore, based on our knowledge, we have carried out an exercise to find out what the improved version will look like. What we will eventually see in the market. And let’s not forget that it is based on PC games.
Those of us who play on PC know that we can’t stay with the same hardware configuration for long, as games have higher and higher requirements. A problem that consoles don’t have, but Valve’s Steam Deck does. There will therefore come a time when the games that will be released will no longer be playable on the current model.
So the release of a Steam Deck V2 is no secret, what’s more, we can now get an idea of how the improvements would be compared to the original model. Others, on the other hand, concern future evolutions of AMD processors, as well as those that have been brought to recent hardware and that the model currently on the market could not receive.
A preview of potential Steam Deck V2 hardware
The first thing we have to keep in mind is that the Steam Deck V2 processor would continue to be from AMD, but it will have significant changes in order to increase performance without losing compatibility. Starting with the CPU, this could evolve into a 8-core configuration under Zen 4 architectureInstead, since precompiled shader code depends on the RDNA2 Architecture we won’t see any improvements at this point. Although it does not mean the same power, since we could see an increase of 8 compute units to 12but with the same clock speed as the current version.
As for the RAM, which is LPDDR5 in the current model, it will be updated to LPDDR5X with a ancho de bandar, 102.8 GB/s. The objective would be to improve energy consumption, a point which would also be improved by the possible integration of a additional level of cache in the processor. Which would end up in the BMI. Will we see increased RAM capacity? Well, we can see a 24 GB or 32 GB configuration, let’s not forget that memory requirements in games are always increasing.
Screen, peripherals and final comparison.
The final point would be the screen, which will retain the current resolution, but will be OLED. This will allow a slightly finer system and also lower consumption. The reason why the resolution will not be increased
| steam bridge | Steam Platform V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU architecture | Zen 2 | Zen 4 |
| CPU cores | 4 | 8 |
| GPU architecture | RDNA2 | RDNA 2+ |
| GPU cores | 8 | 12 |
| Type of RAM memory | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5X |
| RAM memory capacity | 16 GB | 24 or 32 GB |
| Bandwidth | 88 GB/s | >102.4 GB/s |
| type of screen | IPS | OLED |
| resolution | 1280×800 | 1280×800 |
In any case, above these lines we leave you a comparative table of what the Steam Deck V2 hardware would look like. So that you have a better idea of the changes we might see in the upgraded version of the Valve laptop.
