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I know it's not as cool but the Steam Deck can run HL2 at just as low power consumption with its AMD APU.

"A normal Steam Deck consumes about 4 to 7 watts of total system power when idling on the home screen with low screen brightness."

Maybe HL2 brings zero overhead to idle then?

Anyway X86 is the past, risc-v is so completely lost into eternal future... only ARM really works right now.

You can do less on the OLED with a few tweaks in the quick menu. Specifically the OLED because it has a more efficient APU. Limit APU to 3W, disable radio, maybe more.

> Anyway X86 is the past, risc-v is so completely lost into eternal future... only ARM really works right now.

I don't disagree but all of the recent Raspberry Pis have worse performance, cost more than x86, and barely use less power. There are so much better examples to showcase ARM.

> Maybe HL2 brings zero overhead to idle then?

It went like particularly dry shit off a teflon shovel on my Duron 700 when it was new so I can't imagine it would tax a nice modern chip much.

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