Valve has announced a gaming handheld: the Steam Deck. The device will receive an AMD APU with Zen 2 cores and an RDNA 2 GPU, 16GB Lpddr5 memory, and versions with eMMC or SSD storage will be available. Price begins at 419 euros and in December it will be available.

According to Valve, the Steam Deck is running on a new SteamOS version. It sports a 7" LCD with a 1280x800 pixel resolution. The unit operates on an AMD APU with a TDP range of 4 to 15 W which Valve says has been designed and tuned for portable gaming. The apu has a Zen 2 CPU with four cores and eight threads, which run at a speed between 2.4 and 3.5GHz. The GPU is based on the RDNA 2 architecture, has eight compute units and runs between 1 and 1.6GHz. According to Valve, the graphics processing power is a maximum of 1.6 Teraflops. That's Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 territory.

It has Lpddr5 RAM 16GB, 64GB eMMC memory and a 256GB or a 512GB NVMe SSD. A MicroSD card allows storage memory to be increased. It has four buttons, two integrated microphones, a gyroscope, an integrated digital signal processor, Bluetooth 5.0, a headphone connector, and a USB-C port, which is also available with DisplayPort control from an external screen.

Steam Deck supports Remote Play, allowing players to stream their games running on PC to the handheld, and thanks to SteamOS, the device can be put into a sleep mode and then wake up at the touch of a button and continue the gaming session. put. SteamOS also supports cloud saves.

The 256GB and 512GB models of NVMe SSDs cost respectively EUR 549 and 679. The most costly version features a glass layer anti-illumination engraved on the monitor. A dock will also be released for the steam deck, which Valve will later give further specifics. July 16, the Steam Deck will be available for pre-order on Valve's website. Only one device per account can be pre-ordered