Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement

Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bet you can turn it off and just do 1080p gaming. I think steam analysis one said that only about 10% of people have a 4k display. So that’s probably why they haven’t over spec the system.

  In about 4 years they’ll probably have a more powerful version as well.

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  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure what the statistics are for televisions though, which is what this is focusing on (home console experience)

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TVs are all 4k though. 1080p looks like shit on 4k screen.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well they’re really not. The vast majority of TVs in actual use are not 4k.

      I have a 4K TV which I basically never use because the interface is so bad. I only have it because I was giving it for free I wouldn’t have gone out of my way and bought one because my PC screen is fine for viewing content and it’s where all the content is anyway.

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    • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen assuming whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.

      1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

        And that’s why it’s better to use 720p in the cases where you can’t do native 1440p.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah.

        I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that’s the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked great. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, it will do 4K in old games just fine.

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FSR4 only runs on RDNA 4. The Steam Machine has RDNA 3, so FSR3 is the limit

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …Oh. I see, I misread the generation.

      Yeah, that’s a huge caveat, as FSR4 is way better than 3. I wonder if there’s a chance for AMD to backport it?

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