Yeah you’re right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.
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simple@lemm.ee 10 months agoThe battery life test is even more damning. SteamOS in some cases had more than 2x better battery life.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
xavier666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
wtf happened at dead cells? I mean I almost don’t believe the results
Laser@feddit.org 10 months ago
It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn’t very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can’t get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.
xavier666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This explains why Windows laptops just randomly start spinning their fans. Random energy consumption -> heat production increased -> fan spins
pycorax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 10 months ago
What else would it be coming from on the exact same hardware?
pycorax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Drivers possibly? I don’t mean it as a dig at SteamOS, I’m just curious where the discrepancy is from.