Strange to me that the model Y and 3 with AMD ryzen don’t support steam

[gottagofast]

I would think the amd ryzen is atleast as strong as the steam deck, and I can play almost every steam game on that

They could give some warning that you could experience low performance for most games when playing but the option should atleast be there

 

[IronCoffee_Max]

Not enough RAM. It's not just a CPU thing.

 

[gottagofast]

Not enough RAM. It's not just a CPU thing.

8 gig of ram is plenty for 90% of games on steam

 

[terranx]

Steamdeck has a better GPU

I do think they should have had a barebones steam client that can stream from your home machine.

 

[gottagofast]

Steamdeck has a better GPU

I do think they should have had a barebones steam client that can stream from your home machine.

Not from what I read, it says the AMD ryzen has 10.0 Tflops, steam deck has 1.6

 

[terranx]

Not from what I read, it says the AMD ryzen has 10.0 Tflops, steam deck has 1.6

Model 3 doesn’t have a discrete GPU like the S/X. It only has a Vega integrated GPU while the steamdeck has some rdna based design.

 

[gottagofast]

Model 3 doesn’t have a discrete GPU like the S/X. It only has a Vega integrated GPU while the steamdeck has some rdna based design.

Not a problem for Steam It’s still 10.0 Tflops

 

[CCopperpot]

I def agree OP. It seems silly that it's limited to just the X/S since Steam has, literally, thousands of titles that would run on it with zero performance issues.

With that said, I'm sure more went into that decision than just CPU/GPU performance... and at the end of the day, you're MUCH better off just buying yourself a Steamdeck and enjoying it both in and out of the car

 

[terranx]

Not a problem for Steam It’s still 10.0 Tflops

10 tflops are for the rdna2 gpu that the S/X have. The 3/Y integrated gpu is not nearly as powerful

 

[gottagofast]

A dota 2 match on the screen with a mouse and keyboard would be fun while waiting some where, too bad the screen doesn’t have a simple hdmi input

Surprised there isn’t any third party solutions to this

 

[IronCoffee_Max]

8 gig of ram is plenty for 90% of games on steam

8 gig for the entire Tesla UI, OS, etc… and then Steam. And then the game. So no, it's not.

 

[terranx]

8 gig for the entire Tesla UI, OS, etc… and then Steam. And then the game. So no, it's not.

The UI basically shuts down while you're running steam. It takes a while to reboot into normal mode and the car behaves similarly to if you did a hard reset.

 

[IronCoffee_Max]

The UI basically shuts down while you're running steam. It takes a while to reboot into normal mode and the car behaves similarly to if you did a hard reset.

Those are all anecdotal and aren't based on an actual architectural understanding of how those things work. While I'm not on that team either so I can't speak to it with knowledge, I do know that Steam runs as a VM - that in itself requires a lot of RAM as it has to run a full blown OS, not just a container.

Either way - the facts are that it requires 16GB of RAM and the 3/Y don't have it.