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For what it is worth, the increased cache would lessen the benefits of overclocked memory. AMD also specifies 3200MHz memory: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d while Intel specifies 4800MHz memory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/225916/intel-core-i912900ks-processor-30m-cache-up-to-5-50-ghz/specifications.html They already went overboard with memory clocks for both of them, although in Intel’s case, the memory clock speed was within JEDEC’s specification, while in AMD’s case, the memory was over locked beyond JEDEC’s specification.

The 12900KS is a factory overclocked 12900K.

If it was not important, why did they do it?

There is something wrong with the game if it is sending data over the PCI-E bus after level loads.

The graphics cards are not being bottlenecked by fewer PCI-E lanes. Level load times might be higher, but that is it. Once things are loaded into VRAM, the bandwidth requirements are negligible.

PCI-E 3.0 still does not matter for games. A 4x PCI-E 4.0 would be equivalent to a 16x PCI-E 2.0. I am not sure if the steam deck supports PCI-E 4.0, but even if it does not, the bandwidth requirements once things are loaded into VRAM are small.

Very few games would need a stronger CPU than what the steam deck has. ETA Prime picked the outliers.

I had said that too, but upon seeing your NVMe slot remark, I thought it *might* be possible with a bridge chip: https://www.jmicron.com/products/list/13 Those should give PCI-E over USB 3, provided that the OS has driver support for them.

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Summary ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs. Quotes My thoughts He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that. Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. Sources

Would the TLDR include news sites having to pay the link tax too? That would be hilarious.

A better translation can at least avoid misunderstandings. It would be one thing to criticize GPD for something that a mistranslation said. It is another thing to criticize GPD for something that they actually said.

The 3300X was amazing in games. A zen 3 version would be equally amazing. Plus, the cost savings from a quad core would help with buying a GPU. AMD would rather be paid more for the CPU though.

Summary AMD added a feature to the Windows driver that automatically over clocks Ryzen CPUs. It was supposed to be optional, but a bug is causing it to be active even when it is not supposed to be. Quotes My thoughts Given that the official line is that overclocking voids the warranty, this means that AMD’s software is effectively voiding warranties despite the user doing nothing wrong. Those of us using Linux do not have to worry about this. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-confirms-its-gpu-drivers-are-overclocking-cpus-without-asking

It is a synthetic benchmark that does not reflect real world workloads.