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Source is this video:

Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 57 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] cron@feddit.org 55 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Battery life doubled in some games? Now that is even more impressive than 10-20% performance gain.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I also find it interesting that the Steam Deck OLED has a smaller battery but gets longer life on the same OS

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Valve did a lot of work to tune the APU in the steam deck for efficiency. It's custom silicon at the end of the day.

AMD just kinda took one of their existing laptop APUs and threw it into handhelds instead of laptops.

[–] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Deck also has a weaker but lower wattage chip and worse display, that makes a big difference.