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Steam Machine vs Steam Deck (OLED)

Machine: Living-room SteamOS PC. Roughly PS5-class rasterization — a true 1080p/1440p machine, not the native-4K box the marketing implies. 8 GB VRAM is its real ceiling.

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.

$1049
Price
$549
Semi-custom AMD RDNA 3, 28 CU @ ~2.45 GHz (110 W)
GPU
AMD RDNA 2, 8 CU (~1.6 TFLOPs)
~Radeon RX 7600 / GeForce RTX 4060 class
GPU equivalent
AMD Zen 4, 6 cores / 12 threads
CPU
AMD Zen 2, 4 cores / 8 threads
8 GB GDDR6
VRAM
shared (16 GB unified)
16 GB DDR5
Memory
16 GB LPDDR5
1080p native / 1440p with FSR
Realistic target
800p handheld (1280×800)
SteamOS
Platform
SteamOS

Living-room SteamOS PC. Roughly PS5-class rasterization — a true 1080p/1440p machine, not the native-4K box the marketing implies. 8 GB VRAM is its real ceiling.

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.

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