Valve presents its new home console, the Steam Machine

Valve clearly didn’t hold back with its announcements expected to be made this week. The American company revealed not one, but three different devices.

Here, we’ll discuss the brand new Steam Machine, which is said to be six times more powerful than a Steam Deck. With a cubic shape and 152 mm size, this home console will allow you to play PC games on a TV. It has a Gigabit Ethernet port, a DisplayPort 1.4, an HDMI 2.0, a USB-C port, and four USB-A ports. Customers will be able to choose between a 512 GB version and a 2 TB version. There will also be a slot for a microSD card.

With its console, Valve promises a 4K experience at 60 frames per second with FSR thanks to an AMD processor and graphics processor. The power supply is built directly into the Steam Machine. It runs on SteamOS and will have a compatibility program to identify officially optimized games.

Finally, since the Steam Machine is primarily a PC, users will have the opportunity to install their own applications and another operating system.

Technical specifications

• Processor: AMD Zen 4 6c/12t partially custom-designed up to 4.8 GHz, thermal envelope of 30 W
• Graphics processor: AMD RDNA3 28CU partially custom-designed. Maximum sustained clock frequency of 2.45 GHz, thermal envelope of 110 W
• RAM: 16 GB DDR5 + 8 GB GDDR6 (video memory)
• Power supply: Internal power supply, 110-240 V AC
• Storage: Two Steam Machine models. 512 GB NVMe SSD and 2 TB NVMe SSD. Both models feature an ultra-fast microSD card slot
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E 2×2, dedicated Bluetooth 5.3 antenna, integrated 2.4 GHz wireless adapter for the Steam Controller
• Display inputs and outputs: DisplayPort 1.4 up to 4K at 240Hz or 8K at 60Hz, compatible with HDR, FreeSync, and daisy chaining, HDMI 2.0 up to 4K at 120Hz, compatible with HDR, FreeSync, and CEC
• USB: Two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports on the front, two ultra-fast USB-A 2.0 ports on the back, one USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port on the back
• Network: Gigabit Ethernet
• Light bar: 17 configurable RGB LEDs for system status indication or customization
• Dimensions: Height 152 mm (148 mm without feet), length 162.4 mm, width 156 mm
• Weight: 2.6 kg
• Operating system: SteamOS 3 (based on Arch)
• Desktop: KDE Plasma