Canadian YouTube video blogger Linustechtips has released a test video of Steam Deck, announcing the frame rate of this handheld running multiple games. The average frame rate of Control at low quality is close to 60fps.
Devil May Cry 5 can reach an average frame rate of 86fps in medium quality. Forza Horizon 5 can reach 60fps at low quality. The image quality in Ghostrunner averaged 81fps.
According to the data released by Linustechtips, the game performance of the Steam Deck handheld has surpassed the AYA NEO Pro handheld and the OneXPlayer mini handheld of the same size.
Linustechtips also tested the battery life of the Steam Deck, and the 30fps battery life of “Ghostwalker” can reach 3 hours and 21 minutes, which is also ahead of the two Windows handhelds.
Steam Deck is equipped with AMD’s Van Gogh APU, and its CPU part adopts Zen2 architecture, 4-core specifications, 2.4 GHz to 3.5 GHz. In the GPU part, the Van Gogh APU integrates an 8 CU RDNA2 GPU with a frequency of 1.0 GHz to 1.6 GHz and performance of 1.6TFops FP32.
The TDP of the entire SoC is 4 to 15W, and it supports LPDDR5 memory with a capacity of 16GB. Storage options include 64GB eMMC and 256GB, 512GB NVMe SSD. Valve has now officially announced that the Steam Deck console will be released on February 25th.