There have long been rumors suggesting Valve is secretly developing a new SteamOS device, codenamed "Fremont," which could be a gaming console or a gaming box akin to the canceled Steambox. X user SadlyItsDadley has uncovered what appears to be the first benchmark of this mythical Fremont device, which is powered by an AMD processor.
Valve will continue to tap AMD for silicon to power its Fremont project. The benchmark features an "AMD Custom CPU 1772" chip, which belongs to AMD's Hawk Point 2 family, utilizing Zen 4 execution cores and RDNA 3 graphics. However, there was no mention of any Radeon 700M-series iGPU, which implies that AMD may have disabled this part of the silicon.
Instead, the AMD chip emerged with a Radeon RX 7600. It's worth highlighting that Geekbench detected the desktop variant, not the mobile Radeon RX 7600M. This makes perfect sense, since a gaming console or gaming box would require more graphics firepower than what Hawk Point can offer. Furthermore, having its dedicated memory means the graphics card doesn't have to share memory with the system.
Unfortunately, Geekbench didn't provide any specifications on the Radeon RX 7600. However, we already know that the Navi 33-powered graphics card features 32 RDNA 3 CUs and 8GB of GDDR6 memory. It remains unknown whether AMD will make any changes to the Radeon RX 7600 that will be used in Fremont.
