1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:06,720 okay they said they wouldn't do this right but there was the hardware 2 00:00:03,879 --> 00:00:10,360 certification in South Korea right then follow me here fonx caught valve 3 00:00:08,519 --> 00:00:16,199 sneaking codeen names into the Linux kernel Final Fantasy 7 fans know that 4 00:00:12,719 --> 00:00:18,400 Sethro and AIS had a bit of a runin and 5 00:00:16,199 --> 00:00:21,240 then we all know aith was a valve code name for 6 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:28,039 the okay fine valve just launched an 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:32,680 OLED steam deck and I know what you guys are thinking that sounds great but 8 00:00:30,759 --> 00:00:38,600 didn't they say not to expect a new steam deck for years well that's what we 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:44,960 heard but it's not actually what they said we can talk about that later for 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:48,480 now this thing is freaking awesome I am 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,680 talking larger incredible HDR screen 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:55,480 massively better battery life three times faster game downloads more 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:01:00,640 included storage and get this you guys without raising the price take that Sony 14 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:05,519 so get your pre-order order in now obviously but also stay tuned because on 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:09,439 top of all the improvements that they highlighted for us to talk about in our 16 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:15,080 review there's more that they wanted us to discover on our own and those turned 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,320 out to be very interesting like our 18 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:21,799 sponsor foren PC configure your nextg 19 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:24,680 gaming desktop or laptop and save big 20 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:29,520 save up to $900 off select laptops and up to $275 off select desktops at the 21 00:01:27,759 --> 00:01:35,960 link below there's no other way to put it this thing is beautiful this is not 22 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:41,640 just a steam Deck with an OLED display this is a steam Deck with a custom HDR 23 00:01:39,119 --> 00:01:46,880 OLED display the first we've ever seen in a handheld with a rated Peak 24 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:50,479 brightness of 1,000 nits in HDR a rated 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:53,320 million to1 contrast ratio and 110% 26 00:01:50,479 --> 00:01:58,560 coverage of the DCI P3 color space it is even bigger than the original coming in 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,320 at 7.4 in rather than the original 7 28 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:04,960 which they pulled off by rinking the bezels rather than by increasing the 29 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:09,560 size of the unit making it feel even more immersive oh and did I mention that 30 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:13,640 it now does 90 HZ refresh rate for smoother animations and more responsive 31 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:17,720 inputs I mean after the mildly disappointing screen in the original 32 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:25,000 deck this is everything that I could have asked for well almost everything 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,160 we're still stuck at 800p resolution but 34 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:32,720 what blew my mind about that was how hard it was to tell I mean I could have 35 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:37,640 sworn that it was higher but I guess that just goes to show you how much our 36 00:02:34,959 --> 00:02:43,080 perception is impacted by other factors like brightness contrast and color 37 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,760 reproduction valve nailed this thing 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,959 like the color in srgb mode is dead on 39 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:54,120 with even more impressive saturation in HDR it's easier on the eyes in low light 40 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:59,560 conditions and the contrast ratio is functionally infinite so let me just put 41 00:02:56,239 --> 00:03:01,319 it this way this thing pops the only 42 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:05,959 thing I could ask for would be support for variable refresh rate on the 43 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:10,040 built-in screen but valve says that this just wasn't possible not because they 44 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:15,959 didn't do the software work it'll work on an external display but because the 45 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,840 internal display uses a mppy interface 46 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:24,400 when I pressed them on why they didn't use EDP which would support vrr they 47 00:03:21,239 --> 00:03:26,720 were actually kind of evasive so what we 48 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:31,680 suspect is that valve is still not shipping the kinds of volumes that would 49 00:03:28,959 --> 00:03:36,480 justify a completely custom screen putting them at the mercy of what's kind 50 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:40,799 of available in the market and by that I mean that based on the identical 51 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:45,720 subpixel layout we suspect that they're using the same source that Nintendo does 52 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:50,239 for the switch OLED which is important because most sources that we can find 53 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:55,239 suspect that Nintendo is using a mppy derivative for their displays now to be 54 00:03:53,239 --> 00:03:59,159 clear we don't have any proof of this but if we're right it's probably a 55 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:04,159 really good thing based on that recent video looking looking at OLED switch 56 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:08,519 burning yeah it will eventually but only 57 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:11,200 if abused so fingers crossed that's not 58 00:04:08,519 --> 00:04:15,079 but now I'm sure you're practically yelling at your screen by now hey valve 59 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:21,400 said they weren't going to make a new steam deck not for years what gives with 60 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:24,080 this but that's not quite how it went 61 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:28,880 down there were a bunch of Articles earlier this year after veteran valve 62 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:33,720 programmer Pierre lugay discussed how valve would need to do a ton of work to 63 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:38,800 re-engineer the internals to make an OLED screen work and then another round 64 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:42,160 more recently of him saying n he doesn't foresee the performance Target for steam 65 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:46,400 deck changing for the next couple of years which we interpreted to mean that 66 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:51,199 no new hardware was coming but if you read the actual quotes from him rather 67 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:56,199 than skimming the headlines he never actually said we wouldn't get a mid 68 00:04:53,240 --> 00:05:01,400 generation upgrade we just assumed that and we all know what happens when we do 69 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,400 that and and get this not only is the 70 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:08,600 new screen better it's thinner which carves out some precious space behind it 71 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,960 for a larger battery steam dech OLED I'm 72 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,720 not sure if valve calls it that but we're going to call it that boasts a 50w 73 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:21,800 hour battery which valve says should charge faster and last up to 50% longer 74 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:24,000 than the old one which seems like some 75 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:28,560 pretty questionable math on the surface especially given that the included 76 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:33,960 charging brick has identical specs but our results on both of these counts were 77 00:05:31,479 --> 00:05:39,000 right in line with their claims and the why of that was one of the things that 78 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:40,840 we got to investigate on our own you see 79 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,639 some of these gains come from the size of the battery some from a newer 80 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:51,160 chemistry some come from the more efficient screen and some come from the 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:53,800 new silicon that AMD spun for this 82 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:59,039 version now before you get too excited valve was very clear that the new 6 83 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:04,400 nanometer D Shunk processor is intended to perform form just like the previous 7 84 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:11,639 nanm version their exact words were often equivalent never worse but that 85 00:06:08,479 --> 00:06:13,039 doesn't sound like not better and as 86 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:18,039 we've learned there's as much to be gleaned in what valve doesn't say as 87 00:06:15,599 --> 00:06:21,560 there is in what they do say now it's beyond the scope of this video but I 88 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:25,840 would be particularly interested to see what kind of results the hyper Ming 89 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:29,919 Community can get from this new die alongside valve's new underclocking 90 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:33,880 features we're going to talk about out of the box performance though starting 91 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:39,039 with returnal running the built-in Benchmark at 1280 x800 on the low preset 92 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:42,520 we got virtually identical performance with only the maximum FPS being 93 00:06:41,039 --> 00:06:47,720 significantly different from the original deck same story going out for a 94 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:52,680 rip on our favorite kakistan track in f123 similar enough that most people 95 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:56,919 wouldn't notice it day today but an improvement that is well beyond our 96 00:06:54,479 --> 00:07:02,759 margin of error in our measurements I'll take it or at least I would until 97 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:09,360 something weird happened in cyberpunk 2077 we saw a significant performance 98 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:12,440 drop using the steam deck preset in both 99 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,120 cases our minimum FPS was quite a bit 100 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:20,599 lower than the original deck the good news however is that average FPS wasn't 101 00:07:18,039 --> 00:07:24,879 impacted so what we suspect is that the new Apu was stuck in a lower power State 102 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,360 at the start of the Benchmark and then ramped up which is good because that 103 00:07:26,919 --> 00:07:33,560 should be easy enough to fix in the coming weeks or I mean probably days at the rate that 104 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:37,360 valve has been pushing out patches to take the steam deck from The Unfinished 105 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,360 state that it was in when I first reviewed it to the polished experience 106 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:45,039 that it is today now given that our focus is on the new hardware we aren't 107 00:07:43,319 --> 00:07:49,039 going to get into a ton of depth about what valves done with Steam OS lately 108 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:54,520 but the incredible work that they've done on HDR and color Management in 109 00:07:51,159 --> 00:07:56,000 Linux is just the tip of the iceberg 110 00:07:54,520 --> 00:08:00,599 once you manage to drag your eyes away from the new screen you might notice the 111 00:07:57,879 --> 00:08:05,199 thumbsticks before you ask no they're not hall effect but there's a new 112 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:09,520 texture and a slightly different profile that most people around the office 113 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:13,440 seemed to prefer when they were asked well why didn't you go with Hall sticks 114 00:08:11,479 --> 00:08:17,599 seems like such a no-brainer upgrade valve said that ultimately they were 115 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:22,159 unsatisfied with their reliability at this time so fingers crossed for the 116 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:25,599 future but not today other tweaks to the outside uh colors of the button labels 117 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:30,720 and the bases of the thumb sticks are different power button is now a nice 118 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:34,120 almost LT Orange the power LED is a WR wrgb diode to give you more feedback 119 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:38,599 about your charge State and the screws on the back of the deck are torqux 120 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:43,519 rather than Phillips very nice but that's about it for the exterior changes 121 00:08:40,599 --> 00:08:48,760 and it looks like the dimensions are identical which raises a big question 122 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:52,120 for me will your OG deck accessories 123 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,560 still fit now dbrand was desperate to 124 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,000 know which makes sense give them their line of work and we thought about just 125 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:02,360 Landing them a unit but then I was all like hey I have the power in this 126 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:06,600 relationship for a change why don't we charge them to test it and then do it on 127 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:11,440 camera where everyone can see it I actually don't know the correct way 128 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:15,839 to put this on so I'm just going to go for it doesn't seem like anything is 129 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:21,200 different but just CU it doesn't seem different doesn't mean it's exactly 130 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:25,120 right necessarily micro SD slot perfect 131 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,959 rear buttons perfect top buttons LEDs 132 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:31,680 all visible all accessible looks good to me obious viously if the kill switch 133 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:34,680 goes on then their other accessories will fit but what the heck if you don't 134 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:39,519 need the kickstand there's also their Universal Mount go ahead and pop that on kind of looks like valves valve lots of 135 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,680 people use these for external battery Banks but you can mount pretty much 136 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:47,040 anything to your steam Deck with it I mean look at that wow 137 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:54,079 screwdriver now one thing that's not going to go as smoothly is the screen 138 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:57,720 protector do they has a bigger one 139 00:09:54,079 --> 00:10:00,040 because it's only a bezel reduction the 140 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:03,880 actual piece of glass is the the same size and I'm sure you will do a really 141 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:09,519 really good job of applying it instead of just doing it in a hurry like I'm doing cuz I'm on camera oh man that's 142 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:13,480 way off uh just just don't look that close they include two though because 143 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,560 they assume you'll screw one up I I guess oh this is hilarious the notes 144 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:21,079 from dbrand say don't need to actually install probably because they knew that 145 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:24,360 I would screw it up if I did it in a hurry anyway the point is thanks dbrand 146 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:29,200 for sending this stuff over we'll have links in the description along with the new steam deck and everything else we 147 00:10:27,079 --> 00:10:33,560 feature now at this point you know everything you need to know about this 148 00:10:30,519 --> 00:10:34,720 thing as a consumer but the tinkerers 149 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:38,839 you're going to want to stay tuned because internally a lot more has 150 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:43,120 changed than you would probably think starting with something that would be 151 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:47,440 really easy to overlook these screws now go into metal screw bosses rather than 152 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:52,320 just into the plastic housing which is great if you want to get into or out of 153 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:57,279 your deck multiple times say for example to upgrade your storage and speaking of 154 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,760 valve has made a sincere effort to reduce the number of different types of 155 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:04,800 screw screws involved making repairs and modifications a much more pleasant task 156 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:09,240 that doesn't mean however that intergenerational compatibility is going 157 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:14,720 to be perfect the motherboard has changed and the daughter boards on both 158 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:19,720 sides of the unit have been reshaped and redesigned with the thumbstick boards 159 00:11:17,079 --> 00:11:23,600 now having these little wings not sure exactly what to call them but they're a 160 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:28,320 mounting point for the switches for the shoulder buttons which means that any 161 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:32,639 third-party replacement joysticks are going to have to be redesigned before 162 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:37,839 they're going to work in the new deck the battery is still glued in place but 163 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:41,000 valve says that they didn't go Hog Wild with the glue this time so battery 164 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:46,959 Replacements should be a little less terrible and a dedicated DSP is present 165 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:50,440 now to take some load off of the Apu for audio processing with valve claiming 166 00:11:48,639 --> 00:11:55,720 that the new unit delivers refined haptics cleaner audio improved base 167 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:59,240 response and better stereo separation we didn't really find any of these to be 168 00:11:57,279 --> 00:12:04,160 gamechanging but they are certainly welcome improvements superficially the 169 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,600 new cooling setup looks quite a lot like what we saw in the refreshed steam Decks 170 00:12:06,519 --> 00:12:12,839 that they've been shipping in recent months but on closer inspection the 171 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:17,720 mounting points are actually different and there's a lot more open space under 172 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:21,079 the Shroud with far fewer components on the main board getting in the way of 173 00:12:19,079 --> 00:12:25,120 airf flow our acoustic chamber is still in the works but even without it we 174 00:12:23,199 --> 00:12:29,959 observed a noticeable reduction in fan noise and that's with the system running 175 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:35,440 cooler overall under that cooling system we have some more big spec upgrades like 176 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:40,240 the original our new Apu comes with 16 gigs of 177 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:43,279 lpddr5 but this time it's 6,400 megat 178 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:46,519 transfer per second compared to the 5500 179 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:48,600 of the original that is a huge increase 180 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:54,480 and explains a significant amount of the performance uplift and there's a new 181 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:59,880 custom Wi-Fi module that had us peing in the real world at around 650 megabits 182 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:05,279 per second when downloading games on our Wi-Fi 6E Network here at the lab that is 183 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:08,040 outstanding and a huge difference maker if you've ever downloaded a big game on 184 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:12,360 your deck you're going to know what I'm talking about now the wireless module is 185 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:15,839 still soldered down which is a bit of a bummer especially because looking back 186 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:21,240 at the original and seeing what a big Improvement this is wouldn't it have been nice if that one hadn't been 187 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:25,079 soldered but according to valve this was for good reason and allowed them to 188 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:29,000 create a specialized interface between the Wi-Fi module and the Apu which has 189 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:33,600 the benefit of moving the power circuitry onto the main board rather 190 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:38,720 than the Wi-Fi card and of allowing them to run a dedicated antenna for Bluetooth 191 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:43,120 5.3 also to its credit the new Wi-Fi chip is at least soldered further away 192 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:46,920 from the m.2 slot for the SSD which should hopefully result in less 193 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:50,680 interference and speaking of storage let's talk about the updated lineup for 194 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:56,440 a moment here the new topof the line includes 1 tbte of NVMe storage and has 195 00:13:54,160 --> 00:14:00,399 the same anti-glare etching on the glass as the original it also includes 196 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:04,279 includes this new two-part case that will help save some room in your 197 00:14:01,839 --> 00:14:08,880 backpack if you don't happen to have a nice Tech focused bag that has room for 198 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:13,959 multiple laptops and a steam deck like ours does LTT Store.com the base model 199 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:19,680 is now 256 GB for the same price as before a 200 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:26,759 quadrupling of storage not to mention the speed upgrade but this one has a 201 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:29,199 catch it's the old LCD version and not 202 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:35,360 just with the same screen without any of the new upgrades at least that's 203 00:14:32,079 --> 00:14:37,440 the case for now so um I would probably 204 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:44,360 avoid that one and I'd be looking at the mid tier it's $20 more than last gen but 205 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:49,519 it gets double the storage at that price and has all the new goodies all it lacks 206 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:54,759 are the anti-glare coating which to me is not the end of the world and a 207 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:55,959 two-part case it's a smoking deal 208 00:14:54,759 --> 00:15:01,199 there's also a fourth member of the family the limited edition of the one tab that has an exclusive transparent 209 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:04,920 shell but that thing is so limited that valve wouldn't even let us borrow one 210 00:15:03,199 --> 00:15:08,519 even though they totally took our color scheme we had to drive all the way down 211 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:13,000 to Seattle to get this footage of it in person it's like you know guys you can 212 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:17,839 just tell me if you want to hang out and I'll say sure as long as you support our 213 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:21,880 team making great videos kind of like our sponsor grammarly 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