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.

[jaqob]

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.

That is not entirely true. Yes, there are Arm64 cpus that are very capable, but non of them are paired with a capable gpu. Let's hope that the mediatek and nvidia cooperation can change that :)

[sleepy]

Interested into hows this could be adapted to macos even, could be a huge sales boon for valve if they can just magically add macos compatibility to many games that lack it.

[Hundvd7]

That'd be insane if they pull this off in a reasonable amount of time.

Powerdraw has been the single most limiting factor for portable systems since their inception. Both because of cooling and battery limits. And as someone that uses an M3 for work and a Steam Deck for games, the difference is just immeasurable