Steam Deck OLED arrives November 16th, with a high dynamic range OLED screen, longer-lasting battery, faster downloads, and much more. http://steamdeck.com
90hz is mentioned on the linked page, under ‘other updates to Steam Deck OLED’. but yes, no VRR support for this display unfortunately. A bit confusing because the software supports VRR and it still works with external displays.
Even without VRR there are noticeable improvements on the LCD deck from running at 60hz even when frame rates dip heavily, just because the frame timing is shorter so the new frames can be showed sooner.
There’s also the benefit that there’s no gaps in the range for frame multiplication, as long as the display still goes down to at least 45hz. With the original screen you can’t run at 35fps properly (at least OOTB), since it’s lower than the min of 40hz but doubling it exceeds the max (60hz).
Definitely looks to be that way. In this video at the linked timestamp you can see the refresh rate being scaled automatically as the FPS cap is scaled. Looks like the Deck is automatically setting the refresh rate to a multiple of the framerate cap so that frame times and refresh times are kept in sync. E.g. with a 30 FPS cap it sets refresh to 90hz (triple), with a 40fps cap it sets refresh rate to 80hz (double), etc.
512gb OLED: $549 USD
1Tb OLED: $649 USD
This gives more info
I’m frickin stoked!!
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90hz is mentioned on the linked page, under ‘other updates to Steam Deck OLED’. but yes, no VRR support for this display unfortunately. A bit confusing because the software supports VRR and it still works with external displays.
My understanding is the display uses MIPI (not eDP) which doesn’t support VRR.
Yeah, speculation is that it’s a limitation by the display supplier.
Even without VRR there are noticeable improvements on the LCD deck from running at 60hz even when frame rates dip heavily, just because the frame timing is shorter so the new frames can be showed sooner.
There’s also the benefit that there’s no gaps in the range for frame multiplication, as long as the display still goes down to at least 45hz. With the original screen you can’t run at 35fps properly (at least OOTB), since it’s lower than the min of 40hz but doubling it exceeds the max (60hz).
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Definitely looks to be that way. In this video at the linked timestamp you can see the refresh rate being scaled automatically as the FPS cap is scaled. Looks like the Deck is automatically setting the refresh rate to a multiple of the framerate cap so that frame times and refresh times are kept in sync. E.g. with a 30 FPS cap it sets refresh to 90hz (triple), with a 40fps cap it sets refresh rate to 80hz (double), etc.
How does it compare to the old prices ?
No change, just more storage in each tier (64GB was $400, now 256GB. 512GB was $650, now get 1TB)