Yup, and the deck can do stuff at an astounding low wattage, like 3W. Meanwhile there’s gpus that can run at like 400W-800W, like when people used to use two 1080s SLI. I always found it crazy when I saw a guy running a system burning as much electricity as a weak microwave just to play a game, lol. Kept his house warm, tho.
oh you are talking locally I think. I play games on my steamdeck as my laptop could not handle it at all.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
The rule of thumb from data centers is every watt of compute equals 3 watts of energy consumption, 1 to power the thing and 2 to remove the 1 watt of heat, so high power components are really a ton of power
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Your steam deck at full power (15W TDP per default) equals 5 ChatGPT requests per hour. Do you feel guilty yet? No? And you shouldn’t!