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Let's be clear, the brand new Steam Deck OLED isn't just the original machine with a brand new display. Excluding the outer shell, it's essentially a top to bottom revamp of the entire machine and perhaps the most extensive mid-generation 'console refresh' I've seen. But let's give that beautiful new display its due: it's bigger, brighter, runs at 90Hz and in combination with enhancements to SteamOS, you get full HDR support too.
The revised processor is also paired up with 6400MT/s memory, a step up from the 5500MT/s modules found in the original Deck. While Valve says that the performance target of the new Deck is unchanged from the old one, I actually found that the revised model is around two percent to nine percent faster than the original, depending on content.
Inside the revised Steam Deck, with the bigger 50WHr battery next to the larger fan. Under that is a 6nm shrink of the Steam Deck's custom AMD processor. |Valve's list of additional improvements is too long to list here but the highlights include a WiFi 6E upgrade for a notional 3x improvement to download times, faster charging times, faster resume times from standby, a 180Hz polling rate on the new touchscreen, a new Bluetooth 5.
While Valve makes no claims for extra performance, faster memory - perhaps in combination with extra efficiency from the 6nm APU - can bring about performance improvements of between three to nine percent in our tests in Cyberpunk 2077.
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