Steam Deck Can Play Cyberpunk 2077 at Up to 30 FPS on High Settings, according to Early Benchmarks

A Chinese user has gotten their hands on a development kit for the Steam Deck and shared how the retail versions of the portable PC might handle some of today’s most popular titles at its native resolution of 800p. According to their tests, the Steam Deck can run Cyberpunk 2077 in the High graphics preset at 20 to 30 FPS, which is arguably kind of impressive for a handheld. Valve’s Steam Deck is also purportedly capable of running Shadow of the Tomb Raider and DOOM Eternal at up to 60 FPS at lower or custom, more finely tuned settings.

Machine-translated comments by the user regarding Cyberpunk 2077’s performance:

[…] We can obviously feel the freeze, and the number of frames fluctuates between 20 and 30 frames, but […] the quality of the picture is very comfortable. In the game, we can see the reflection of the water surface very vividly even on the small 7-inch screen. Adjust the picture quality to medium or low, you can play very smoothly.

The user goes on admit that the Steam Deck can get a bit hot during gaming sessions. A test with a handheld thermometer revealed that the back of the portable and its grips can hit 42.6°C and 29°C, respectively.

Steam Deck Gaming Performance:

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (High) – 30+ FPS Average
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Custom) – 60+ FPS Average
• DOOM Eternal (Custom) – 46 FPS Average
• DOOM Eternal (Low) – 60 FPS Average
• DOTA 2 (High) – 47 FPS
• DOTA 2 (Low) – 80 FPS
• Cyberpunk 2077 (High) – 20 – 30 FPS

As a refresher, Valve’s Steam Deck leverages an APU with a Zen 2-based CPU and RDNA 2-based GPU. It features 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, up to 512 GB of storage.

Source: Ali213.net (via Wccftech)