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Steam Machine, AMD RDNA 5 APUs, PS6, XBOX Magnus w/ Fan The Deck (Guest Telegrams) (Patreon)

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2026-02-13 03:04:30
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Broken Silicon's next episode will see us be joined by Fan The Deck! Needless to say he will have A LOT to say about the Steam Machine, potential Steam Deck 2, and upcoming consoles and APU architectures - but also don't be afraid to ask us about pretty much anything adjacent to those subjects!

You have ~48 hours to submit below!

Check out Fan The Deck: https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheDeck

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/625565405086220583

https://youtu.be/sJI3qTb2ze8

https://youtu.be/v1JN8nCD1JM

https://youtu.be/mmAX6XFQsA8

https://youtu.be/x-A3Bl2hXoQ

https://youtu.be/X_pjrZQDerw

Comments

Steve Clock

Nice work pulling Fan the Deck MLID team!

Lucas

Do you think Valve will aim for a similar life cycle for the Gabe Cube as the Deck or will there be more incremental upgrades along the way? If RDNA5 really can run on lpddr5x, that might give them a cheap machine with a decent step up in performance. If they can get a good apu that lets them consolidate cooling, they might even get it to be cheaper than rdna3, or at least close.

AnotherChris

Hello Tom and Fan The Deck, which series of RNDA 5 will be the most popular, AT0, AT2 or AT3/4, purely looking at the IPC increase I could easily say all of them look appealing, but what do you think people will gravitate towards?

Lucas

Do you reckon Xbox will even bother with dedicated APIs and dev tools next generation since the silicon is off the shelf anyway? Or will it all be on the standard Windows tools and they combine their efforts to improve those? God knows HDR could use some love on PC.

Christian Visconti

An rdna5 Apu will never be cheaper than the undold rdna3 laptop dies the bottom of the barrel

Lucas

The memory situation will have relaxed a tad by then, just putting an SoC instead of separate cpu+gpu on a board is always cheaper and I don’t expect them to be out the gate with this on the day that rdna5 releases. I just gave a suggestion what this intermediate upgrade might look like. If their aim is bargain price PC, an apu is an obvious choice.

Valentyn

Greetings to you both! As a discussion point and a counter argument to Tom's comments from Broken Silicon 348 (about Steam Machines not offering anything unique or new): I believe that Steam Machines bring a unique value proposition to people who already own powerful gaming PCs—it can be their second PC with the convenience of a console. To me, it's much less about performance and much more about the ability to start the system with a click of a gamepad button, superior sleep states (which work even in a paused game), streamline system update experience, and most importantly, access to my existing Steam library (so that I don't need to buy games twice). Won't this be enough to distinguish the Steam Machine from PS5, even if it won't compete on price? And as far as I know, a self-build PC wouldn't be able to do all of that either (at least not the power-on from gamepad and the superior sleep).

Valentyn

For the eventual successor to the Steam Deck: wouldn't it make sense to make two different versions? One aiming for performance, supporting the latest AAA titles in 1080p60. And a second one aimed at less-demanding indie (+ older) titles, with performance on the level of the current Steam Deck, but with way better battery life and/or lower weight. I feel like there is a demand for both kinds of devices.

BespokeEP

With FSR support still lacking on PC, how big of an advantage do you think this gives PS6 over Magnus? Where PS could mandate PSSR support for every game, Xbox will have no control over whether Devs support AMD's suite or not.

BespokeEP

I want to know how many devs will just skip a native Xbox version, based on the fact that Xbox users can just play the steam version. I can't imagine devs will want to bother wasting time and money developing something completely unnecessary. I don't know about any other console gamers, but the main reason I chose console over PC is cause I don't want to spend time tweaking settings, I just want to play an optimized version for my hardware. Magnus is the least appealing console for a console gamer, and the fact that nothing will be upgradable makes it unappealing for PC gamers as well

transpose1195

What are your thoughts on the rate of adoption of SteamOS devices produced by companies other than Valve? As far as I'm aware Lenovo is the only vendor releasing SteamOS devices, with the Legion Go S released May 2025 and the Legion Go 2 supposedly in June. Maybe vendors are taking it slow since handhelds are still pretty niche, or they can't afford to piss off Microsoft too much for the sake of other product lines such as laptops.

BespokeEP

Hopefully not too late but I guess a follow up question to that is, do you see FSR support drastically improving when RDNA 5 launches?

BespokeEP

Have you heard any rumblings of Sony incorporating it's ReRAM tech into PS6? Early rumours of PS5 suggested that it might use it, but never came to fruition.

Stained Class

Regarding CAMM DRAM modules, current overdemand aside, are you able to give ab idea of when it will see more widespread adoption in consumer laptop, desktop, and DIY markets? My understanding is CAMM allows the speeds of soldered memory while retaining upgradeability. Even for desktop, it seems like it will also be better for airflow in cases and less issues with large tower CPU coolers. Thanks!

Soumen Kamila

Hey Tom, long time subscriber of moores law is dead YT, Do you have any specific info about PS6 APU design philosophy or any info you it's custom feature sets? Like PS5s custom geometry engine, HBCC like SSD architecture?

curryking3

Is the current market underestimating or overestimating the ability and pace of China and Chinese companies to satisfy the RAM appetite of current high technology companies? Could this be compared to China's market presence currently in EVs who have used a mix of western technology and research in battery technology and combined this with sheer capacity and scale and willingness to move fast and make mistakes? Could we see the same thing in the market's newest hot ticket item in RAM if the potential return remains so high? Is China or another player a potential high volume supplier who can reset the market rates for high performance RAM?