The upcoming Phoenix APUs from AMD are a game-changer for portable and handheld devices. Between 15 and 45W TDP, Zen4/RDNA3... They're slowly trickling out to thin and light laptops, but I can't wait to get them in the next Steam Deck killer.
Chinese ODMs seem to have already started making mini-pcs with the new chips, and I imagine routers will follow quickly.
Until AMD’s media engine improves, the Intel chips will still be valued by the Plex/Emby crowd.
I'd love a new router board with a 6 W CPU and some storage ports. But all I can find is media player boards with at most one ethernet.
Dream board atm would have said 6 W CPU, DC power, two ethernets, one 2.5 Gbps, and some M.2 and SATA slots. For a combined routing/storage box.
I imagine an Alder lake N version of this will appear sooner or later, and the N100/N200 should give you the 6W part you’re looking for.
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Not as nice as my old Atom router because of the active cooling on the CPU and the ATX power connector. The latter I can fix with a PicoPSU but the former...
I'd rather have a passive radiator on the CPU and add some airflow via a huge case fan - which is what i'm doing now for my router box. That way it's a lot more silent.
It seems like the CPU fan stays off almost all the time, and is apparently very quiet even when on.
> Oh, and I forgot to mention, I have set the fan to come on at 36 degrees and go off at 34 degrees. It's off most of the time (pseudo-passive) ;-)
> s I'll use the stock one first becase the heatsink fan is dead silent as @Camprr23 has mentioned.
With a 120Hz screen, you can run the UI and overlays at 120FPS, run cinematics at 24FPS or 30FPS and the game at 40FPS or 60FPS. All fits neatly into 120Hz.
How does a 99% static UI or overlay benefit from 120 fps?
They have it a lot harder than something like Switch.
You mean the Steam Deck 2 or a new device that will "kill" the Steam Deck?
That said no one has streaming down perfect yet. Steam Link, AMD link, Moonlight all suck.
Farther than I thought, it turns out.
You know, for all the stuff about Apple silicon being a game changer it doesn't really seem like the game has changed that much...
Apple silicon was only a game changer for productivity tasks, and only for people willing to jump into the Apple ecosystem. In all other cases, especially for gaming, an APU with the performance of Zen4/RDNA3 at the announced TDP doesn't exist yet. So, yes, it's a game changer.
They just need to run natively on ARM to get performance that's more than competitive on the CPU side. The GPU is no slouch but is not top of the line (yet). Seems trivial to pair the ARM CPU with an external GPU.