Digital Foundry’s guide to getting the best out of Steam Deck docked

Valve’s Steam Deck is an excellent portable machine for 720p gaming, packing last-gen console performance in a compact shell – but can we push the system further? With a 4K display as a target output we’re going to drag the Deck as far as we can into docked, home theatre gaming. This may seem farcical but new second generation reconstruction techniques – FSR 2.0 and TSR – have just hit commercial games, providing massive performance gains for high-res rendering. Plus, there’s a wide library of older and less technically challenging content that the Steam Deck may be able to accelerate to high resolutions on raw performance alone. So can we actually achieve a good docked TV experience with the Steam Deck on a modern 4K display – or are the demands of high-res gaming just too much to ask from the low-power, low-bandwidth AMD APU at its heart?

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