

Battery life isn't extraordinary either, as it can fluctuate anywhere between 2-8 hours depending on the game and your graphics settings, according to Valve. The Steam Deck doesn't fail to impress on paper, but it's worth pointing out that the graphical horsepower maxes out at 1.6 TFlops (teraflops), which isn't much better than the 1 Tflops on the Nintendo Switch. It also packs 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and comes with NVMe SSD storage options. The Steam Deck features a 7-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels (yes, no 1080p!) for starters. Under the hood, it houses a custom AMD APU that brings the Zen 2 CPU architecture and the RDNA 2 GPU prowess together. Valve claims that the Steam Deck’s built-in 40-watt battery can run for 2 8 hours of gameplay. At first glance, it looks like a bigger, chunkier Nintendo Switch, but there's more to it than just the looks.

Valve's Steam Deck is a handheld gaming machine you can use to play any game on the Steam store. Yes, we're talking about full-blown PC games here and not a special port of the game. Our retail unit is the 256GB Steam Deck, the middle spec of the three available models right now.There are some differences with what you get across the various models, but those will be detailed.
