Steam Deck is an awesome portable PC, and one of the best handheld gaming consoles. But now that the new Steam Deck OLED is here it’s dead to me. I tolerated (and was even pleasantly surprised) by its LCD panel at times, but I’m all about OLED, so upgrading to Valve’s refreshed model is the biggest of no-brainers to me.
I’ve been obsessively testing a whole bunch of some of the best Steam games over the past few months since Mega Modz sent me a custom Deck, and many of these titles have performed far better than I was expecting them to. Thanks to Valve’s handy frame rate limiters that let you lock in a stable 60, 40 or 30 fps with steady frame pacing depending on how demanding a game is, I actually sweat in-game performance on my Deck less than I do with my RTX 4090-powered mega rig.
