Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We’ve tried each of them and here’s what you need to know about each one.
“From the Frame to the Controller to the Machine, we’re a fairly small industrial design team here, and we really made sure it felt like a family of devices, even to the slightest detail,” Clement Gallois, a designer at Valve, tells me during a recent visit to Valve HQ. “How it feels, the buttons, how they react… everything belongs and works together kind of seamlessly.”
For more detail, make sure to check out our in-depth stories linked below:
Steam Frame: Valve’s new wireless VR headset
Steam Machine: Compact living room gaming box
Steam Controller: A controller to replace your mouse
Valve’s official video announcement.
So uh, ahem.
Yes.
Valve can indeed count to three.
It’s a 28cu RDNA3 core running up to 110w. It’s not a mystery how fast it will be, AMD already has silicon out with those exact specs: the RX 7600M. It’s going to run as fast as a current midrange gaming laptop, or about on par with a desktop 6600xt with faster memory and a 6 core ryzen. For some reason there isn’t a comparable rdna3 core out for desktop, but that kinda makes sense as you only start to see the benefit of the extra wattage a pcie card gives you with the 40cu+ cores.
That is to say, it will run 4K like shit unless it’s a decade old game or everything is set to low with FSR cranked all the way up.