Comment by saidinesh5
17 hours ago
This is a really good card that keeps on getting better.
After my steam deck battery puffed up and my RX580 became too old to play any modern games, I had two choices:
1. Upgrade to a new GPU - this was costing me $300 at the very least for a 3 year old card
2. Hope to get a steam machine - but the crazy queue and the $1000 price tag really soured me on this
3. Get a bc-250 for $150 and make do for a year or two before upgrading.
I'm so glad I went with this option. I just used my old atx power supply and old PC case. Everything almost just works. It consumes lot less power than my previous gaming PC. It's a lot more silent. Some times there's a crash or two. I'm waiting to upgrade the power connector before unlocking it's full potential (40 compute units, and the two extra cores). So far I've finished playing Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts legacy, now playing 007 first light.
Why not just replace the battery in your Steam Deck?
I intend to.
They don't sell steam deck/it's parts where I live. So the next time people visit me from far away, they'd have to bring one along.
That being said, steam deck isn't as powerful to play some of the games like Spider-Man 2. The stuttering is quite high on that.
Seriously, please don't throw away perfectly functioning hardware just to avoid unscrewing a few screws.
Cries in my ongoing Apple Watch Series 6 battery replacement
Seriously, how close can you even put a screen and a metal casing?! Incredibly tiny gap that is impossible to jimmy open. I'm on day 3 trying to get this bastard open now...
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Nice, the bc-240 is around a GTX 1660 Ti GPU in performance, and some AAA RT eye candy games are less fun anyway... but many still work... so the VRAM requirements are not as big of an issue.
People are figuring out what is playable on the platform, and it is a growing list:
https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/gaming/compatibil...
I was impressed Cyberpunk 2077 is on the list. ymmv =3
I have a 1660 super and I believe it is only a little less powerful than the ti. It definitely is not as powerful as a ps5. Though the original post is saying the bc250 is. I'm not sure which is correct!
It is a silicon lottery if the hidden BC-240 cores are stable when unlocked.
Almost ps5 level, but not quite... still a lot cheaper than a GPU these days, and the discounted racks came with NVMe ssd on each BC-240 as well. =3