My wish list for steam deck 2
6core 12 thread cpu ≈ 3700x performance
gpu close to or around 5700 — 5700xt performance
6 gb of dedicated vram
Overbuilt cooler
about 3,5 hours or better battery life in intense gaming session at ≈ 25w
more ports I want a minimum of 2 usb c 20gb ports (I’d like one of them to be thunderbolt)
same OLED screen or better (maybe 100hz but the resolution doesn’t need to go up)
A togglebel docked mode, that turns on when charging and gaming at the same time, That makes it boost to like 60w. Like when docking the switch. (I also want to be able to turn it on in battery mode, at a greatly reduced battery life.)
bigger more dense battery
space for 2230 2242 and 2260 SSD (and with a clear way to mod in a 2280 size for the madlads)
Things I want, but I know is never going to happen.
It being a clamshell with 2 screen or a keyboard or just space for better cooling
having an open source mini pci x16 connector for external gpus and other shenanigans
And to address it before someone says it in the comments, I don’t care about the weight it could hit 900 grams and I would not care
Dude.
3700X is an 8c/16t chip, not 6c/12t. It’s also Zen 2, which is already what’s in the Steam Deck.
6GB of dedicated VRAM is not nearly enough for modern games, and the current APU can already scale to 8GB with shared system RAM. As such, that’s actually a downgrade in many ways.
3.5 hours at 25W? That’s just not going to happen. It would take stuffing a battery 3-4 times the size of the current one into the Deck.
60W “turbo”. So many things wrong here. One, it’s not boost or turbo or whatever manufacturers want to call it. To hit 60W, it’s a 60W chip. The “normal” mode is choking it down to a lower TDP. The thing is that you can design power envelopes with such a large spread. A 60W chip is pretty much desktop class, and there’s no way you could ever get it reasonably down to something like the 3-5W the Steam Deck APU can sip. It’s just completely unnecessary, anyways. The goal is to get a decent power in an efficient package. Go but a desktop if you want more.
More dense battery. You can’t just make a battery more dense. It’s Li-Ion, and chemical and physical properties of that are hard set. You need an entirely new battery technology, which doesn’t yet exist in a commerically viable form.
Alright let’s start from the top
I’m aware that the 3700x is a 8c/16t chip what I said was I wanted a 6c/12t chip with performance around the performance of an 3700x
Second no 8 GB of vram is not needed on the steam deck any " modern " game would at max run at 45-80 FPS on it plus it’s a 800p screen about a quarter the size of a 27 inch display where the conversation of needing 8 GB of vram comes for ( not to mention that that is at 1440 p)
I’mma just compress all of the battery stuff in to one answer
I don’t know shit about batteries so I just say whatever made sense to me and clearly I’m wrong
Thank you for commenting