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Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.
Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.
I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they'd normally have halved the cost of a larger one.
Gtfo man, what tablet is this that is more powerful than everythinh with a 9060xt attached? But it is a bad time indeed and nevertheless I hope it succeeds
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3070-vs-AMD-RX-9060-XT/4083vsm2417253
What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??
8GB dedicated, but shared increases that.
I do give props for not using Nvidia, that 3070 is the last time I put up with them.
some ipad pro models have 16 combined ram?
I mean that is true, but still nowhere near the same thing as 16GB ram and 16GB dedicated vram. This thing has a 9070xt and a 600W PSU, so the other commenters claim that they have a higher specced tablet is just kind of absurd, especially since I don't believe there's a tablet in existence with discrete graphics. And even if it did, beating a recent gen card like a 9070 would be a really tall order.
yeah for sure it’s not comparable compute power but you asked 🤷♀️
Gotcha, I meant it more as a rhetorical question meant to point out that no tablet has 16GB of vram, so it kinda misses my point to talk about ones with 16GB combined ram.
I'll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.
I was looking for a 2TB 2230 and they have a few at around $200, then most are at or over $500. They're nuts right now.
I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it's because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.
But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.
So I think YMMV depending on the game. I've got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.
The biggest issues I've had with sd cards has been the exFAT file system, not the card itself, the ext4 or btrfs drives are soooo much faster and cleaner to use than "compatible" exFAT formatting.
Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.