![]() ![]() Still, I wouldn't be happy to find I'd lost out on the silicon lottery and got a new Steam Deck with the slower SSD, whether I'd ever notice a difference in actual usage or not. I'd say it makes sense that other things are already bottlenecking the performance of the theoretically faster x4 drive given my experiences with the Steam Deck, so personally I'm inclined to trust Valve's analysis here. ![]() Though without being able to carry out our own side-by-side testing of the different drives with two Steam Decks side-by-side, we are going to have to take Valve's word for it for now. That sounds fairly reassuring, and you've got to hope that Valve would have done some pretty extensive testing to make sure the end user won't notice the difference. Steam Deck - The emulation dream machine (opens in new tab): Using Valve's handheld hardware as the ultimate emulator. How loud is the Steam Deck? (opens in new tab) And will it pass the Significant Other test? Steam Deck battery life (opens in new tab): What's the real battery life of the new device? Steam Deck availability (opens in new tab): How to get one. Steam Deck review (opens in new tab): Our verdict on Valve's handheld PC. ![]() "In extremely uncommon cases, differences in read/write speed caps may minimally impact file transfer speeds, but OS performance, loading times, game performance, and game responsiveness are identical between the x2 and x4 drives." ![]() "SSD performance is currently gated by factors not related to PCIe bandwidth," says Yang. Yang says there are some edge cases where the switch in SSD can impact file transfer speeds, but on the whole system performance remains the same whichever drive is installed. Some of the actual loading times of games on the Deck, and its SteamOS operating system, could be pretty sluggish at times even with the x4 SSD in our review sample. Those numbers are only theoretical, though, because real-world system performance can be bottlenecked by many different factors in a full system such as the Steam Deck. Given that an x2 SSD has half the potential bandwidth of an x4 SSD-and those drives often have lower peak sequential read/write speeds, too-it's reasonable to expect there would be some sort of performance delta between them. The current Deck specs page state that, in Valve's testing, it did not see a performance impact on gaming performance, but we were keen to know whether there might be an impact on more general system performance. ![]()
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