Steam Deck OLED leads at 24 W, but Switch 2 delivers 2.5x more FPS at 8.6 W TDP in the latest detailed comparison

[Redaktion]

A detailed comparison reveals surprising results between the Steam Deck OLED and Nintendo Switch 2, especially when power limits come into play.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Steam-Deck-OLED-leads-at-24-W-but-Switch-2-delivers-2-5x-more-FPS-at-8-6-W-TDP-in-the-latest-detailed-comparison.1052877.0.html

[DantePierttyr]

It's not realistic, Switch consumes more than 12w in Cyberpunk, they put the best number for switch 2, 8-10w is only running old NS1 games.

[SSilva]

It doesn't matter. The fact that steam deckers were quick to say "I'll emulate the games on SD instead bla bla" is the real test. No easy emulation this time around.

Nintendo real power is games. 150 million vs 3 or 4.

[switchcope]

It doesn't matter. The fact that steam deckers were quick to say "I'll emulate the games on SD instead bla bla" is the real test. No easy emulation this time around.

Nintendo real power is games. 150 million vs 3 or 4.

Nintendo doesn't have 150 million games, what are you smoking?. you do realize there are more games in Steam currently than Nintendo's entire catalog history right? And trust that switch emulation absolutely beats native switch play, that's not even up for debate. Nintendos total of TWO switch exclusive games means there's no reason to emulate Switch 2 yet. Nintendo fanboys love to lie to win this fake gaming war lmao. y'all lost well before the switch 2 was ever released

[Ginkoh83]

It would have been fairer and interesting to compare Steamdeck LCD version with Switch 2....

[Nobodynohow]

Swing and a miss.

This video only tested switch 2's low tdp, or portable tdp, against steamdeck oleds full TDP range. It specifically stated as such in the video.

As he stated in the video, he is not testing switch 2's high TDP against sdoled, because it's a complete and absolute sluaghter, to the point of being pointless.

So no, soled does not lead at 24 watts, it gets obliterated by switch 2's 20 watt tdp.

[DantePierttyr]

A detailed comparison reveals surprising results between the Steam Deck OLED and Nintendo Switch 2, especially when power limits come into play.

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Steamdeck max TDP = 15w,

What they're using as a metric is 20w tdp is the consumption of the entire system including the screen vs the theoretical NS2 number that only counts the SoC. In short, manipulation.

[DOOM1000101]

It says so much that people are directly comparing a handheld that released a month ago with a handheld that released three years ago.

[SethNW]

Flawed comparison, more apples to oranges. Steam Deck is counted as full system.power while Switch us just SoC. Not to mention that both games aren't equal, consoles get optimized pedal to the metal style, because they are developed for that exact hardware, whole Steam Deck runs PC version that has general OC optimizations, it isn't optimized for Steam Deck only. Plus consoles rarely use one of PC presets, they use custom settings that sometimes don't even match individual options on PC.

And all that just to find out what we already knew, that 2025 is more efficient than 2023 hardware. Like duh, it would be way more shocking if it was other way around. Like whole point of newer architectures for portable systems and low TDP is doing more with same power limits. Though with how you can't really test apples to apples betwen console and portable PC, this also is questionable.Steam Deck dedicated and optimized version for that exact architecture probably would run better. Switch 2 got that, Steam Deck did not.