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Just wondering if releasing the steam deck 2 on arm would be a huge deal. I know arm is famous for being more efficient, but would it still be better, even when using FEX?

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[–] Turtle@aussie.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago

Valve are doing the ARM experiment with the Steam Frame.

They mentioned not wanting to release a Steam Deck 2 until there was a significant performance upgrade available.

In my opinion an ARM chip with the FEX translation overhead isn't going to be it just yet, it will probably be another AMD SoC.