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The Steam Machine is causing a ruckus in the tech world, namely due to its price-to-performance ratio now that reviews have gone out into the wild. It's true that you can build a full-size gaming PC or buy a pre-built gaming PC for less money and with superior power, but what about a mini PC that's a closer match to the form factor? 👉I found these pre‑built gaming PCs that beat Valve’s Steam Machine on price and performance, and it’s not even close Well, that's where the real genius of Valve's device comes into play. It is indeed capable of delivering quite a bit of gaming performance in a sup

For starters, the Geekom A7 Mini-PC is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU (with 8-Cores and 16 threads), which gives it the ability to handle productivity tasks in Microsoft Office, browsing the internet, editing 4K videos, and general content creation with smooth and speedy performance ratings. It's also decent for casual PC gaming on the side as its integrated AMD Radeon 780M GPU allows achieving 1080p resolutions with most light/indie titles and even a few AAA titles (so long as they're on low or medium graphical settings). Other notable features include upgradable 16GB of RAM and a 1T

The Steam Machine is expected to arrive with an RDNA 3 GPU featuring 8GB of VRAM. Unfortunately, I haven't yet seen any leaks in terms of the Steam Machine's GPU performance, but there are some hard facts to note. The Steam Machine's GPU is a far cry from the integrated chips in gaming handhelds that share system memory, and it's very likely that the boosted GPU performance will completely annul any CPU deficit. 👉 4 reasons why SteamOS is quietly winning over PC gamers — and why Windows won't be dethroned any time soon Where the CPU performance gap will most likely be felt is in huge open-worl

I highly doubt that the Steam Machine's leaked CPU benchmark scores are anything to be concerned about. The performance level could be felt in some edge cases where games are CPU-bound, but otherwise I expect the superior GPU to pull a ton of weight. This is especially true considering the Steam Machine is intended to be a living room device running on common TV resolutions and frame rates. Valve has confirmed that its Steam Machine is still "shipping this summer" despite supply chain issues and rising hardware prices. There's still no word on pricing. Join us on Reddit at r/WindowsCentral to