Having a screen resolution of only 1280x800 helps a lot. Steam Deck specs say up to 1.6 TFlops from the GPU.
That's half as many pixels as the 1080p screens that people in 2014 were playing on. Keeping "rendering quality" fixed, pixels and flops aren't necessarily linearly correlated, but half the pixels does mean approximately half the flops to hit the same quality targets, ignoring the new upscaling tech that will almost certainly be used to close the gap. So 1.6 TFlops today vs. approximately 2.5-equivalent 2014 TFlops is probably not that dramatic of a gap.
And running on a battery. That's actually really damn impressive.
That's half as many pixels as the 1080p screens that people in 2014 were playing on. Keeping "rendering quality" fixed, pixels and flops aren't necessarily linearly correlated, but half the pixels does mean approximately half the flops to hit the same quality targets, ignoring the new upscaling tech that will almost certainly be used to close the gap. So 1.6 TFlops today vs. approximately 2.5-equivalent 2014 TFlops is probably not that dramatic of a gap.
And running on a battery. That's actually really damn impressive.