Steam Machine vs Xbox Series X
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.
Series X: Microsoft's 4K console — stronger GPU than the Machine, closed ecosystem.
Machine
at a glance
Series X
PS5-class
GPU power
PS5-class ▲
6-core modern
CPU power
8-core class ▲
8 GB
Graphics mem
16 GB ▲
16 GB
System mem
16 GB
$1049
Price
$499 ▲
110 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).
- $1049
- Price
- $499
- Semi-custom AMD RDNA 3, 28 CU @ ~2.45 GHz (110 W)
- GPU
- AMD RDNA 2, 52 CU (~12 TFLOPs)
- ~Radeon RX 7600 / GeForce RTX 4060 class
- GPU equivalent
- —
- AMD Zen 4, 6 cores / 12 threads
- CPU
- AMD Zen 2, 8 cores
- 8 GB GDDR6
- VRAM
- shared (16 GB GDDR6)
- 16 GB DDR5
- Memory
- 16 GB GDDR6
- 1080p native / 1440p with FSR
- Realistic target
- 4K / 60
- SteamOS
- Platform
- Xbox
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.
Microsoft's 4K console — stronger GPU than the Machine, closed ecosystem.
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