In a new video with IGN, Valve talks a bit more about the technical capabilities of Steam Deck and its AMD processors, saying that even games released this year are "running without problems."

"We've seen a lot of different games in our back catalog over the past few years, but the real test for us was the games released last year," said Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais, "The earlier types of prototypes we were testing and the The architecture we were testing didn't work very well with these games," said Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais. This is the first time we've achieved the level of performance needed to run the latest generation of games without problems. All the games we wanted to make playable are really the entire Steam library. We haven't found anything yet that we could throw at this device that it couldn't handle." [The current PC gaming trend favoring high frame rate performance and high resolution will help the Steam Deck, Griffais said.

Valve reiterated its use of all-new AMD CPUs and GPUs, along with LPDDR5 RAM, a particularly fast new memory standard. We may be one of the first products to introduce this memory technology," said Yazan Aldehayyat, hardware engineer at Valve. We're not the only ones adopting this architecture. The optimizations that game developers will make for this new architecture will benefit us as well." [The architecture Alderhayyat is referring to is the one-two punch of AMD's Zen 2 on Ryzen 3000 CPUs and RDNA 2 on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. (You can read more about the Steam Deck hardware here.)

"It's only now that we feel that Steam's entire catalog is available to anyone with this device," says Alderhayat. That's when we knew we had a product that could deliver the experience we were looking for."