Because he could
support external graphics cards. Valve has been clear on this point for months — you can’t magically plug in a dock and runat 4K. But ever since the company revealed that the Steam Deck’s storage plugs into a easily accessible M.2 PCI-Express x4 socket, the PC gaming community has speculated that an eGPU module could totally fit there instead., adding an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, one of the highest-end graphics cards on the market.
It works, it runs, it plays games at 4K with maxed-out settings at framerates a vanilla Steam Deck could only dream of. But no, you probably shouldn’t do this at home! Not only does it kind of defeat the portable purpose to have a desktop graphics card sticking out the back — not to mention an external power supply! — but a bunch of games seem to bog down due to having a relatively slow CPU and only four lanes worth of PCI-Express bandwidth for that beefy graphics card, too.
Oh, and you can’t close the Steam Deck’s case, either, which is probably not optimal for its longevity. And ETA Prime says an Nvidia GPU didn’t work.Perhaps some future Steam Deck will have a bonafide external graphics compatible connector so you could simply plug in a ready-made eGPU box? Thunderbolt is pricey and traditionally exclusive to Intel systems, but
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