Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games, sparking speculations about new future hardware

[Redaktion]

Valve seems to be testing ARM64 and Android support on Steam, as per a new SteamDB leak. Popular titles like Left 4 Dead 2 and Garry's Mod are being tested with "proton-arm64" tags, among others. This could hint towards new future Valve hardware running on ARM64 architecture.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-is-testing-ARM64-support-for-popular-games-sparking-speculations-about-new-future-hardware.891851.0.html

[papajon]

ARM64 is nice and all, but currently there is no SOC, that would match the super old Ryzen in GPU performance, which matters much more than IPC.

[Lizard]

Snapdragon X elite machines seems way more obvious.....

[chithanh]

There is no "new future hardware" required to make this feature useful. It is applicable today already to Chromebooks with ARM CPUs.

[mamajon]

currently there is no SOC, that would match the super old Ryzen in GPU performance

It's not so much the h/w but more the drivers that hold them back.