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Steam Deck OLED Is the Battery King (linuxgamingcentral.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Direct link to the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkpJ1qPUVA

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The battery is insane, I was emulating some gba games and getting like 12 hours minimum

[–] CluckN 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn I emulated pong and it lasted 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You played pong for 24 hours?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Pooooooooooong, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

As an aside to the great content of the article, I really want to say, how refreshing it is to open a web page without 700 prompts and videos bombarding me. The page loaded before my browser were open.

[–] merthyr1831 2 points 6 months ago

I was gonna say "turns out adding a larger battery makes your device last longer, who knew!" but that discounts the fact that the OLED screen and smaller soc also help quite a bit.

If I remember right, the newer SoCs, especially on the newer Zen 3 core, are not that much more power efficient until they're being pushed to their limits. When the cpu isnt the bottleneck the two cores are similar.