Steam Hardware
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I look forward to see this reviewed, 28 Compute Units on the GPU is below the Radeon RX 9060 XT that has 32.
Hopefully it isn't too limited in other aspects like RAM bandwidth.
But on the other hand an RX 9060 XT alone is almost half the price of this entire unit (EU price). So if it can perform about as fast as that, it seems like a pretty good deal.
Edit:
Saw the Gamers Nexus review, and I'm impressed with how small it is, it's also very power efficient. But those are not the things I'm looking for in a gaming system. And I am not impressed with the performance/price ratio.
The steam machine is based on RDNA 3 aka the RX 7000 series, and we knew it was heavily underclocked. Even thinking about the 9060 xt was a lofty expectation.
The problem is that you can build a way faster system yourself for the same money. And that can be easily upgraded later.
These things are supposed to be relatively cheap for the hardware when they come out.
And this only performs like an RX 6600XT at best. Which is a 5 year old lower mid range GPU.
It's not that it doesn't have its merits, it's a cool little box, and probably good enough for most games at 1080p.
But IMO it is a bit under-powered for the price.