There is still time for Steam Deck to be released, but now we have an interesting type of content to at least have a first peek for the internal hardware design of this hyped product. This is an official teardown video thanks to Valve’s courtesy, and they very clearly suggest against doing the same teardown. This device is announced to be a closed console, and definitely not to be customized in any way.
Many parts of Steam Deck is specially designed and tested for this system, therefore it will not be possible or at least viable to attempt on swapping parts like SSD. There will only be a handful of pieces like thumb sticks that allow replacement, and some third-party companies will provide such parts for users who need such support. With such movable parts on the device, it is definitely okay to expect some sort of issues in time. You can watch the video below.
Since the device was announced some time ago, you can surely check out some early benchmarks here. The system sells in $399, $529, and $649 configurations, with the only difference being the amount of on-board storage. Here are the system’s basic specs:
“The Steam Deck offers an AMD Van Gogh APU with 4 cores and 8 threads. The CPU will operate at a base clock speed of 2.4 GHz and will turbo up to 3.5 GHz. As for the GPU, you are getting the AMD RDNA 2 architecture with 8 Compute Units for a total of 512 stream processors which will clock up to 1600 MHz. The CPU will offer 448 GFlops while the GPU will offer 1.6 TFLOPs of FP32 horsepower for a total of over 2 TFLOPs performance, making it faster than the original Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles.”
The Steam Deck begins shipping around December. But let us remind you that there is a pretty serious queue into 2022, so you’d better forget about Christmas gifts if you have not ordered one already.
