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They filter the performance, consumption and loudness of the Steam Deck in games

It’s not that Valve didn’t know what was going to happen, quite the contrary, they supplied certain units where there were some minor limitations, such as using only 7 games available in the ProtonDB database. These games were Portal 2, Ghostrunner, Devil May Cry 5, Forza Horizon 5, Street Fighter V, Dead Cells, and Control.

Steam Deck crushes its rivals

What we can see in the performance comparison charts is a literal beating of Valve’s console against its most direct competitors. It is true that its hardware is much more powerful, so the difference is justified.

In Control, for example, almost the 60 FPS on average, while the most powerful rival stays at 42.6 FPS, yes, always playing low. Devil May Cry 5 shows similar differences, as although it is in the middle and with FXAA and TAA Steam Deck it moves in 86.2FPS on average, where OneXPlayer Mini does it at 66.9 FPS and AYA NEO PRO at just 60.

Chostrunner more of the same and already under DX12 and in medium setting: almost 90 FPS for Steam Deck by car compared to 66.2 for its most powerful rival, a very wide difference without a doubt. Forza Horizon 5 leaves the FPS at 60 for the Valve console and at 50 for the AYA NEO PRO with 20 watts, the distances are maintained in percentage terms.

What we see here is that we basically have good to very good performance as long as we play on low or even medium, but this could improve as there are rumors that Valve wants to introduce improvements to Proton, Wine and Mesa 3D sooner. of the launch.

Battery, consumption and screen

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Given the performance, what about the consumption? Well, it varies between 15.4 watts and almost 45 watts when it comes to charging + gaming, where the average consumption should be about 25-30 watts seen the data.

The screen however has room for improvement, since it has been measured 52ms of latency, when for example OneXPlayer gets 44 ms. On the other hand, there is quite a bit of talk about its attenuation and the almost nullity of light reflections.

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Where it has surprised is in the battery life. Valve ensures an autonomy of between 2 hours and 8 hours, where logically everything depends on the brightness and the settings or FPS at which we want to play. Under the same conditions among the three rivals AYA NEO PRO achieved 1.36 hours in gaming, while OneXPlayer Mini went up to 2.47 hours marking distances.

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But it is that the Steam Deck got 3.21 hours of play, which means doubling the autonomy of the AYA NEO PRO, a fact that makes one think given the performance, general quality and battery life compared to the price that both have. Finally, the loudness, those lucky enough to test them have measured levels between 26dB and 34dB being the peak of 38 dB.

These are very good values ​​if we take into account that the console fan can reach the 4,100 RPM.

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