Valve Details Steam Deck’s “Aerith” SoC in New Video, Global FPS Limiter and AMD FSR Update in the Works

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Valve has shared a copy of a recent live stream that provides quite a bit of technical insight into its new handheld gaming system. Among those is the name of the SoC; Valve’s engineers are apparently Final Fantasy VII fans that decided to name it after flower girl Aerith. They also confirmed that the Steam Deck will be getting a global frame rate limiter for reducing power usage and extending battery life, as well as a future OS update that could enable AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution in titles that don’t natively support the spatial upscaling technology...

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