Steam Machine Hardware Has Me Worried About the PS5’s Long-Term Future

Valve claims the Steam Machine is six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, and while that’s likely an oversimplification – ‘power’ in gaming is complicated – there’s some truth to it. The Steam Machine boasts significantly better processing capabilities, a more recent CPU, and more advanced RAM compared to the Deck, despite sharing a similar underlying design. The Steam Deck has eight processing units, while the Steam Machine has twenty-eight, putting its performance on par with the latest consoles from Sony and Microsoft.








