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You can literally make a steam deck last 30 mins at minimum. Lol. I would say most users are getting 2 to 3 hours with reasonable settings. So many variables at play. Your best bet is to go in with realistic expectations.
Depends on your game, settings, screen brightness, etc. It’s highly tunable with stuff like FPS limiters and even custom TDP limit settings built into the UI.
Just running a Gameboy Color emulator, for instance, you might get 6+ hours. Running Baldur’s Gate 3 at reasonably optimized settings from an online guide, you’d get about 1.5-2 hours
what’s the battery life of these beasts?
That’s almost impossible to answer because it all depends on how you’re using it, what games you’re playing, screen brightness, etc.
But in general I would say it’s pretty good.
You can literally make a steam deck last 30 mins at minimum. Lol. I would say most users are getting 2 to 3 hours with reasonable settings. So many variables at play. Your best bet is to go in with realistic expectations.
Thanks all, of course, my comment was about 3D games. You don’t buy a Steamdeck to play Mario Bros SNES or SuperMeatboy.
Depends on your game, settings, screen brightness, etc. It’s highly tunable with stuff like FPS limiters and even custom TDP limit settings built into the UI. Just running a Gameboy Color emulator, for instance, you might get 6+ hours. Running Baldur’s Gate 3 at reasonably optimized settings from an online guide, you’d get about 1.5-2 hours
Somewhere between 2 and 8 hours.