Have you ever wondered if you can achieve 4K resolution and 60 FPS when playing on Steam Deck? Well, apparently you can. Of course, there is a catch in the end, and that is that need an impractical process to get it. It’s been proven youtuber ETA Prime, which in the video shows you step by step how to achieve this. Spoiler alert: It’s not easy… and it’s not cheap.
Video uploaded to channel Estimated Time of Arrival Prime It lasts 10 minutes. At this time we see a man successfully connect Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card to the device’s M.2 port. This was achieved by removing the SSD drive from the Steam Deck and replacing it with a card.
ETA Prime notes that while trying to use different generations of Nvidia cards, none managed to work with Steam Deck. This left him with the only option to use the Radeon card. Of course, he had to connect the Radeon RX 6900 XT to an adapter that could connect it to the console. In addition, an external power supply was required to power the video card.
“Why? Because we can”
This is how ETA Prime described his ingenious invention. Although of course this takes away the frills of the Steam Deck that PC should have. games portable. However, demonstrates customization options that exist with this interesting device. “It’s definitely over the top,” says ETA Prime in her video.
This is not something I would recommend doing. The Steam Deck is designed to be portable. It was just a test to see if it works and yes I mean it definitely works.
Estimated Time of Arrival Prime
After removing the SSD, ETA Prime turned on the console using a copy of Windows 11 installed on the microSD. However, the games used in the test were installed on an external SSD connected to Steam Deck via USB-C port.
After all this, he connected the Steam Deck to the monitor and turned it on. Thus, managed to run The Witcher III: Wild Hunt in 4K with all settings on Ultra. In terms of frames per second, tests show that they stayed at 108 frames per second, which is an impressive result. Grand Theft Auto Vfor its part, managed to hit 70fps on Steam Deck with graphics set to “Very High”.
Unfortunately, the graphics card failed to reach its full potential in the tests. The reason is clear and it is that the bottleneck of the internal processor of the console is the video cardwhich severely limits the performance that more modern games can achieve.
For this reason, games like Cyberpunk 2077 they only reached between 40 and 80 FPS at maximum settings in 1080p. The same configuration was used in the just released ancient ringand in this case, Steam Deck managed to achieve an average of around 46 fps.
Steam Deck Flexibility
Valve’s Steam Deck has proven to be quite versatile. He was released almost a month ago. Support for Xbox Cloud Gaming via Microsoft Edge on the console, and Valve recently published the console drivers so you can install Windows without any problems.
Valve hasn’t had much luck with consoles and gadgets released in the past. However, looks like they put their heart and soul into thisand the results show it so.
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