Valve starts shipping and delivery some Steam Decks with slower SSDs but says effectiveness is unaffected

In a nutshell: Steam Deck generation is on the rise but overall performance might be trending in the opposite route. It was a short while ago learned that Valve at some stage quietly updated the tech specs on its Steam Deck merchandise web page to replicate a alter with regard to the stable-condition drive made use of in the handheld. A observe less than the storage group signifies that some 256GB and 512GB models ship with a PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD.

Formerly, all of these models arrived with a PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD.

A Valve spokesperson informed IGN that a lot of Steam Deck parts appear from numerous suppliers for improved redundancy and manufacturing potential. Specifically, 1 of their SSD suppliers supplies PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe SSDs when one more provides an x2 (two lane) variant.

The rep mentioned they have analyzed both of those elements thoroughly and decided there is no affect on efficiency between the two.

"SSD performance is at the moment gated by components not relevant to PCIe bandwidth," the rep famous. "In particularly unheard of instances, differences in examine / publish velocity caps may well minimally impact file transfer speeds, but OS functionality, loading moments, match general performance, and game responsiveness are similar concerning the x2 and x4 drives."

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Valve declared before this week that it was much more than doubling Steam Deck shipments transferring ahead.

There does not surface to be a way to request which form of travel your Steam Deck will ship with. These unsatisfied with an x2 model could update the push at their cost but Valve won't endorse undertaking so. What is more, a good quality microSD card could get you more storage with substantially less inconvenience and only a insignificant efficiency strike.