Steam Deck (OLED) vs Gaming PC (RTX 4060-class)
Deck: The mature handheld. We don't re-rank what ProtonDB and SteamDeckHQ already own — Deck appears here as a comparison baseline and a data source.
PC: The same GPU tier as the Machine, but Windows — the openness vs convenience comparison.
Deck
at a glance
PC
Handheld
GPU power
PS5-class ▲
Low-power
CPU power
6-core modern ▲
▲ 16 GB
Graphics mem
8 GB
16 GB
System mem
16 GB
▲ $549
Price
$800
15 W
Power draw
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Bars are relative — longer is stronger. For price & power draw, lower is better; power draw is neutral (handhelds trade power for battery).
- $549
- Price
- $800
- AMD RDNA 2, 8 CU (~1.6 TFLOPs)
- GPU
- RTX 4060 / RX 7600 class
- —
- GPU equivalent
- —
- AMD Zen 2, 4 cores / 8 threads
- CPU
- varies
- shared (16 GB unified)
- VRAM
- 8 GB
- 16 GB LPDDR5
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR5
- 800p handheld (1280×800)
- Realistic target
- 1080p / 1440p
- SteamOS
- Platform
- PC
The mature handheld. We don't re-rank what ProtonDB and SteamDeckHQ already own — Deck appears here as a comparison baseline and a data source.
The same GPU tier as the Machine, but Windows — the openness vs convenience comparison.
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