The rumors about Fremont ultimately came true and Valve has a new Steam Machine based on a custom processor with AMD’s Zen 4 and a dedicated RDNA 3 graphics card, which also represents a full-fledged desktop PC with SteamOS based on Arch Linux. In an extremely compact housing with dimensions of 152 × 162 × 156 mm (H × D × W), the new Steam Machine combines a total of 6 Zen 4 processor cores with a total of 1,792 FP32 shader units from 28 compute units.
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The Zen 4 processor with 6C/12T, optimized by AMD specifically for Valve, works with a clock frequency of up to 4.8 GHz with a TDP of 30 watts and is flanked by 16 GiByte DDR5 RAM. The RDNA 3 graphics card, which is slightly below an AMD Radeon RX 7600 with Navi 33 XL in terms of specifications, has 8 GiByte GDDR6 graphics memory and is limited by the manufacturer to 110 watts. Users will have the choice between SSDs with 512 GiByte and 2 TB when it comes to storage space.
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The full-fledged desktop PC with SteamOS offers 1 × HDMI 2.0 for up to 4K/UHD at 120 Hz and 1 × DisplayPort 1.4 for up to 4K/UHD at 240 Hz and 8K/UHD-II at 60 Hz as well as 2 × USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, 1 × USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 and 2 × USB 2.0. Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi 6E with 2 × 2 MU-MIMO take care of the network connection, while an integrated 2.4 GHz wireless adapter connects the new Steam Controller.
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While the new Steam Controller adopts the touchpads familiar from the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED, making mouse input via the gamepad much easier, an ARGB bar with 17 customizable LEDs provides information about the status of the new Steam Machine.
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Valve does not want to officially announce prices and a possible release date for the new Steam Machine and the new Steam Controller, which will also be available individually, until the beginning of 2026.
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