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At least for battery impact, wouldn't that also help laptop users?

johnny22 5y ago
it probably would, but still more useful to steam deck users since battery usage can be dependent on hardware (and drivers for that hardware) specific to the deck.
Duralias 5y ago
Depends a lot on components, for example, the Steam Deck only has 4 physical cores, a laptop might have more and that is ignoring if you have a different architecture than Zen 2. You can do a lot to optimize the battery life on a Steam Deck, but it also does a few things automatically, which a laptop doesn't (like capping framerate in a very efficient way).
chaorace 5y ago
Probably! In that sense, this may be the first time anyone has attempted to maintain a large index of games by power consumpion. I do find it somewhat amusing that the existence of the Deck inadvertently creates a universal benchmark. I wonder how useful that data will prove to be over time as units age and new SKUs are released?
- sbarre 5y ago
  I watched a video earlier today that touched on this, and suggested that the amount of metrics and data that Valve is allowing folks to pull out of their Steam Decks will 100% be useful when the Deck 2.0 comes out because we'll all be able to see real-world benchmarks on how it compares to the previous unit, for a lot more use-cases and types of games. Consoles traditionally hide this stuff...
  - giobox 5y ago
    Agreed - the Steam Deck's "Game Scope" performance overlay that toggles straight from the quick menu button has been enabled in almost every single video of the Deck running I've seen. Having an awesome performance overlay available from day one that was so easy to toggle has meant virtually all Deck videos have the benchmark data burned into them, making finding real-world comparable results from the new "universal baseline" surprisingly easy to do just watching youtube. When Deck 2 rolls, we will all be used to the Game Scope benchmark overlay format too.
mewse 5y ago
Yes absolutely, but it’s typically harder to measure for laptop users and will vary a lot based on laptop hardware. On the Steam Deck, every device has the same hardware, and Valve even puts an (optional) display in the top left corner of the screen to show the device’s current power draw in watts, which makes it a lot easier to make meaningful comparisons between games!

it probably would, but still more useful to steam deck users since battery usage can be dependent on hardware (and drivers for that hardware) specific to the deck.

Duralias 5y ago

Depends a lot on components, for example, the Steam Deck only has 4 physical cores, a laptop might have more and that is ignoring if you have a different architecture than Zen 2. You can do a lot to optimize the battery life on a Steam Deck, but it also does a few things automatically, which a laptop doesn't (like capping framerate in a very efficient way).

chaorace 5y ago

Probably! In that sense, this may be the first time anyone has attempted to maintain a large index of games by power consumpion. I do find it somewhat amusing that the existence of the Deck inadvertently creates a universal benchmark. I wonder how useful that data will prove to be over time as units age and new SKUs are released?

sbarre 5y ago
I watched a video earlier today that touched on this, and suggested that the amount of metrics and data that Valve is allowing folks to pull out of their Steam Decks will 100% be useful when the Deck 2.0 comes out because we'll all be able to see real-world benchmarks on how it compares to the previous unit, for a lot more use-cases and types of games. Consoles traditionally hide this stuff...
- giobox 5y ago
  Agreed - the Steam Deck's "Game Scope" performance overlay that toggles straight from the quick menu button has been enabled in almost every single video of the Deck running I've seen. Having an awesome performance overlay available from day one that was so easy to toggle has meant virtually all Deck videos have the benchmark data burned into them, making finding real-world comparable results from the new "universal baseline" surprisingly easy to do just watching youtube. When Deck 2 rolls, we will all be used to the Game Scope benchmark overlay format too.

mewse 5y ago

Yes absolutely, but it’s typically harder to measure for laptop users and will vary a lot based on laptop hardware. On the Steam Deck, every device has the same hardware, and Valve even puts an (optional) display in the top left corner of the screen to show the device’s current power draw in watts, which makes it a lot easier to make meaningful comparisons between games!