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The Steam Deck is x86 despite being a handheld for compatibility with PC games. There is already a compatibility layer software-wise (Proton to run Windows gam
by eloisant 4y ago
The Steam Deck is x86 despite being a handheld for compatibility with PC games.
There is already a compatibility layer software-wise (Proton to run Windows games on Linux), adding one more compatibility layer for hardware this time will add more problems to run games.
So unfortunately until PC game developers massively start to support ARM architectures, we're stuck with x86.
- mschuster91 4y ago> So unfortunately until PC game developers massively start to support ARM architectures, we're stuck with x86. No. All it needs is someone other than Apple to do what Apple did with the M1 - people have shown that you can run games perfectly fine in Rosetta [1]. [1] https://www.macwelt.de/ratgeber/Das-M1-Macbook-Pro-als-Gaming-Laptop-ein-Experiment-11088973.html https://www.macwelt.de/ratgeber/Das-M1-Macbook-Pro-als-Gamin...
- kllrnohj 4y agoRunning games under Rosetta comes with a performance hit. A small hit, sure, but it definitely appears to be a large enough hit to kill the M1's power efficiency advantage. It's not far fetched that the AMD SoC in the deck is more powerful efficient than M1 with Rosetta, even, especially since M1's GPU performance in games is notably below par.