Hands-on Valve Steam Machine testing questions if GPU can deliver 4K/60 fps performance

[Redaktion]

Valve markets its new Steam Machine as a 4K-compatible gaming system for living rooms. Initial tests find that many games may require lower resolutions and settings for optimal performance. The bottleneck in the Steam Machine specs appears to be its RDNA 3 GPU, which ships with only 8GB of memory.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hands-on-Valve-Steam-Machine-testing-questions-if-GPU-can-deliver-4K-60-fps-performance.1161598.0.html

[Watchful]

60 FPS is the old standard The new standard is at least 100 FPS for smooth gameplay.

[Blindfold]

60 FPS is the old standard The new standard is at least 100 FPS for smooth gameplay.

Yeah, it was until UE5 came out. Now it's back to 40 FPS. Maybe with frame generation you can break 80+.

[indyp]

60 FPS is the old standard The new standard is at least 100 FPS for smooth gameplay.

60 fps is fine.  I'm not paying Thousands more for 40 fps more.  You can pay it, I don't mind.

It's like phone specs.  I used to geek out about phone screen resolution and PPI, until I realized that that hasn't mattered in a long time.  99% of phones released today look good at any resolution.

And I've never seen a difference beyond 120Hz in refresh rates.  Not a competitive gamer and never will be.