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Steam Deck

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two USB ports would be really nice. Is USB4 able to use an external GPU?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is USB4 able to use an external GPU?

Yes but it would be BS to use one with a power-contrained CPU like the Deck's.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yes but it would be BS to use one with a power-contrained CPU like the Deck’s.

You could bump up the resolution and graphical settings at least, even if you're constrained in framerate and in CPU limited games. Although I believe the eGPU support on Linux isn't great at this point either.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

yes, USB4 has thunderbolt in the spec. The cpu on the deck is just fine for games but the gpu with shared memory is really it's biggest bottleneck.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

USB10 or why bother?