ETA Prime : Steam Machine Hands-On First Look! :: Also Price Reveal and Order Waitlist Open!
10 hours ago by sp3ctr4l to c/steamdeck
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Looks like some kind of review embargo has been released, ETA Prime's apparently been sitting on a review model Steam Machine for a month.
YT url once more:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cF6eAM3jhCY
EDIT:
Oh holy shit, we also apparently have prices and a wait list sign up that... apparently closes on June 25th, 10am Pacific time.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
Variant / Price:
512 GB / $1049.00
512 GB + Controller / $1,128.00
2TB / $1349.00
2 TB + Controller / $1,428.00
EDIT 2:
This is all on the same day that we get news that... AMD figured out how to make FSR4 work on RDNA 3 / 7000 series GPUs, and, Steam is currently or just about to push a beta Proton update to Experimental, which will give this thing (as well as any PC w/ AMD 7000 series GPU) FSR4 support for basically any game that currently supports FSR3.
So... that's a lot of news.
Gamers Nexus has a whole thurough benchmark video out.
TLDW; the Steam Machine is very expensive for what it can do. Unfortunately that's just reality because the components cost about as much today...
Its actually not that expensive, for what it can do, and that's from the Steve directly, in that video.
He does a price comparison to nearest equivalent parts you can actually currently buy for a DIY PC.
He ends up with $979 for the DIY vs $1050 for the 512gb Steam Machine, a 7% difference.
There are currently, right now, many, many prebuilt PCs that cost this amount or more, with worse hardware.
... and also, this video here, from ETA Prime,.that I linked, that is this post, that apparently no one is actually watching, is also full of game test benchmarks, though not as much crazy specific technical.shit as Steve gets into.
It outperforms a PS5 Pro on say, RDR2.
1440p, high/ultra settings, no fsr upscaling, gets ~75 fps in complex/open areas, significantly better inside of rooms/houses/buildings.
And, as stated in the main post body... the Steam Machine is going to support FSR4 upscaling either on launch or very soon afterward, so you could use that, not lose much graphical fidelity, and get more frames.
A PS5 Pro cannot run RDR2 at a stable 60 fps, at 1440p.
It has to be locked to 30 fps to run 4K, which it does via upscaling, and a checkerboard rendering technique, which makes it not actually the same 4K as a PC would render, but w/e.
To get 60fps, it has to be locked at basically 1080p, though I think technically it is doing dynamic resolution scaling, so maybe effectively a slightly higher average resolution than that, maybe 1/4 or 1/2 way to 1440p.
A PS5 Pro costs $900.
If you think a PS6 is going to cost less than a PS5 Pro, you are wrong.
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The performance benchmarks will be the best determining factor of buying or not.
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