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Valve's Steam Machine ships summer, outperforms Deck.

6/17/2026

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Valve announced the Steam Machine will ship summer despite supply-chain issues.
Geekbench 6.7.1 benchmarks on June 15 gave it a 2,334 single-core and 7,392 multi-core score.
It uses an AMD Zen 4 “AMD Custom CPU 1772” with six cores, 4.86 GHz boost, 16 GB RAM and an RDNA 3 GPU with 8 GB VRAM.
Its scores beat the Steam Deck’s 2,282 single-core and 7,316 multi-core results, prompting Valve to expect the GPU to offset CPU performance.

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Story summary

Valve announced the Steam Machine will ship summer despite supply-chain issues.
Geekbench 6.7.1 benchmarks on June 15 gave it a 2,334 single-core and 7,392 multi-core score.
It uses an AMD Zen 4 “AMD Custom CPU 1772” with six cores, 4.86 GHz boost, 16 GB RAM and an RDNA 3 GPU with 8 GB VRAM.
Its scores beat the Steam Deck’s 2,282 single-core and 7,316 multi-core results, prompting Valve to expect the GPU to offset CPU performance.