


Currently only Windows 10 is supported if you want to use Windows 11, you'll have to engage one of the hacky workarounds due to the Steam Deck's lack of TPM support. There's a quick guide to setting up Windows on the page, but it's definitely still for advanced users. Still no word on when that will happen beyond "when it's done." You can use Port Royal to test and compare the real-time ray tracing performance of any graphics card that supports Microsoft DirectX Raytracing.
WINDOWS GRAPHIC CARD BENCHMARK INSTALL
To run Windows on the Steam Deck, you'll have to nuke SteamOS, but once the company gets its full SteamOS 3 release out, it will have the ability to install alongside Windows. or better Supported video cards at time of release:GeForce GTX600 series: GeForce.
WINDOWS GRAPHIC CARD BENCHMARK DRIVERS
Perhaps even more interesting than the drivers themselves is the note from Valve on the release page stating that dual-booting Windows with SteamOS is not supported. Your NVIDIA GPU should appear as High-performance NVIDIA processor. Those go into a fresh Windows install alongside the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth drivers, although you'll have to use USB Type-C or Bluetooth for audio because as of this writing there is still no Windows audio driver for the built-in analog sound hardware, which means no speakers or 3.5mm output. In practice, well, that remains to be confirmed, but early tests do show that many (if not most) games run very well indeed.įortunately we can actually check, now, because AMD and Valve have finally released Windows graphics drivers for the Van Gogh processor's integrated Radeon. Using a very clever interception library called Proton, it can run Windows games with native or perhaps even better-than-native performance, at least in theory. This CPU benchmark software can run tests on CPU, SSD, GPU, RAM, USB devices, and HDD. It analyzes PC performance to provide user with a performance score along with overall and component-specific percentile score. It ships with SteamOS 3.0, which is based on Arch Linux. This is one of the best and simplest benchmarking tools for Windows. See, despite being a gaming PC at its heart, the Steam Deck doesn't ship with Windows. However, one of the big question marks surrounding the Steam Deck's gaming performance has been the effect, whether good or bad, of its choice of operating system. A pile of outlets have run a lot of benchmarks on the Steam Deck (we haven't gotten one yet).
