Steam Deck OLED Is the Battery King

Celeste plays three times longer than most other handhelds!

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The battery is insane, I was emulating some gba games and getting like 12 hours minimum
- Damn I emulated pong and it lasted 24 hours.
  
  You played pong for 24 hours?
- To add to the off-normal usage scenarios, I mostly play my SD at home and when doing so Stream from my main rig. In this method, the battery life is incredible. It’s basically just running the network card, screen, and registering button inputs, and it really just sips on the energy usage.
As an aside to the great content of the article, I really want to say, how refreshing it is to open a web page without 700 prompts and videos bombarding me. The page loaded before my browser were open.
I was gonna say "turns out adding a larger battery makes your device last longer, who knew!" but that discounts the fact that the OLED screen and smaller soc also help quite a bit.

If I remember right, the newer SoCs, especially on the newer Zen 3 core, are not that much more power efficient until they're being pushed to their limits. When the cpu isnt the bottleneck the two cores are similar.

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