Approximate same power mini-pc - Minisforum HX99G, when being sold (discontinued as of today) used to be at a price around $800. Sometimes it was found to be sold at discount price of $700.
I want to believe that Steam Machines will be lower than that due to brand name recognition and mass production.
Just wanted to post this video. If this tiny undervolted, underpowered, palm sized APU machine can run these games at these FPS, I am willing to bet that steam machines gonna run games without dropping a sweat at 4k.
Many modern games can run on a 780m integrated AMD GPU(APU) with FSR and other bells and whistles enabled. One can run some games on a em680 - a palm-sized PC with underpowered 680m GPU. It is not gonna be 4k@60 of course. Could probably be 1080p@30 depending on release year, requirements and settings. But that is a super tiny computer with a built-in GPU that has more power over your typical GPU from 2015!
Now, Steam Machine is going to have a dedicated GPU that is around as powerful as 7600. With FMF and FSR it could probabaly do many games from 2020 to today at 4k@60. Hardware is not as bad as many think here. There are not so many games that require more than 8gb of VRAM. Maybe they also design SteamOS to work better with custom PCs that are more powerful than Steam Machines. Who knows? But so far, hardware is not so outdated and will be sufficient for a few years.
I have just finished leveling up druid to 80 on my AzerothCore single-player modded server. Was a fun ride. Never played druid before. Wanna do other classes that I never played such as: hunter, rouge, warrior, shaman, DK. But that is much later.
Yesterday jumped back in Psychonauts 2. I've already finished this game 4 times to 100%. This is my 5th 100% run and only yesterday I went though 1/3 of the game collecting as much stuff as I could and listening to all dialogues as I can. Fun game! Also, impressed how it runs 80-144fps 1080p max settings on Bazzite. My hardware is not the greatest but somehow it seems Bazzite runs it better than Windows.
Such a delight to see people really praising Valve for doing such and obvious yet revolutionary tech development and at the same time in next post people be shitting on Gabe for buying a multi-million research vessel cause he's a fucking billionaire and there is no good billionaires.
Nice style, fast lodaing screens, 4k and good graphics. But to me, it is just an upgraded ps4. Graphics didnt leap as far as 8bit-16bit-ps1-ps2-ps3. Big focus on improving visuals lead us to have great visuals barely changing overtime, but gameplay didnt evolve.
Maybe it is hugely toned down custom CPU. There are not so many Zen4 CPUs with similar specs. I'd say, this is 7600 at minimum which is still quite good.
We were impressed by 7840u CPUs in these miniPCs like EM780. With Steam Machines' form factor, wonder what they will pull off.
Announced specs are quite epic. AMD Zen 4 cpu - probably something similar to 7600X but can go as high as 7900X. GPU is 8GB RDNA3 - probably something like RX7600 (close to 4060m). This is already better than most MiniPCs on the market. If the price is right, post-release MiniPC market is going to be fun.
If I am correct, CPU in this one is approx 7600x-7900x which i fucking cool! I got HX99G and I love my little machine. It seems that insides of Steam Machine are a little bit better, which is fucking insane and probably will mean that prices are not going to be super high. In any case, seems to be a very stable machine to run games on with a 4k TV.
Of course T2 and Jurassic Park has CGI and it holds fucking strong today still. When I was talking about no CGI, I was talking about The Thing being my fav out of the bunch because of no CGI and just looking awesome so many years later.
Approximate same power mini-pc - Minisforum HX99G, when being sold (discontinued as of today) used to be at a price around $800. Sometimes it was found to be sold at discount price of $700.
I want to believe that Steam Machines will be lower than that due to brand name recognition and mass production.