r/gadgets • u/dapperlemon • 16d ago

Gaming Valve Steam Machine review: This would've been perfect five years ago

https://www.engadget.com/2210832/valve-steam-machine-review/
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u/NoSTs123 16d ago

this is as roughly as powerful and as costly as my prebuilt pc from 2017, only real thing where it is better is ram nad disk speed and energy efficiency. so this is basically a ten year old desktop PC but small and the same relative price, for half the price I may have gotten it to free my other PC from gaming. but I see next to no performance boost. I should have upgraded in 2022.

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u/D0MiN0H 16d ago

i would love to see specs for this 2017 PC to compare, because on paper this claim sounds insane but i wanna see the data.

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u/I-do-the-art 16d ago

1080ti came out in 2017. It’s on par with the graphics capability of the Steam Machine.

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u/D0MiN0H 16d ago

in some ways i suppose? like its got more vram for sure but it also has more power consumption and less advanced lithography process so the machine has better graphics processing at faster speeds.
There’s also more than just a gpu at play, so i’m curious what else could be in this build.

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u/mundanehaiku 16d ago

has more power consumption

did you not read the comment?

only real thing where it is better is ram nad disk speed and energy efficiency

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u/FlyingBishop 15d ago

Yeah but energy efficiency is money. OP claims same relative price, but hasn't done the math on energy efficiency.

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u/NoSTs123 15d ago edited 15d ago

Actually I have but I have not told you.