Valve announces Steam Deck OLED

After unveiling the first Steam Deck back in 2021. Valve has officially launched the Steam Deck OLED – an upgraded version of the original handheld console.

Steam Deck Oled

The Steam Deck OLED features a 7.4-inch HDR OLED touchscreen panel with up to 90Hz refresh rate support and up to 1,000 nits peak HDR brightness. Powering the device is an AMD APU with a Zen 2 for CPU and RDNA 2 for GPU. It comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 and two storage options: 512GB or 1TB.

Though the button layout, OS, audio hardware are all similar to the LCD Steam Deck, but the OLED’s battery is now 50Whr which can last 3 – 12 hours of gameplay. It’s charged using a 45W USB Type-C cable.

Steam Deck Oled 2

The Steam Deck OLED is priced at USD 549PHP 32,218INR 46,528EUR 523CNY 3,996 for the 512TB, a carrying case and the Steam profile bundle while the 1TB version costs USD 649PHP 38,087INR 55,003EUR 618CNY 4,724 and comes with carrying case with removable liner, the Steam profile bundle, and an exclusive startup movie and virtual keyboard theme.

According to Valve, more regions will be available to grab the Steam Deck OLED with potential new colorways soon.

Steam Deck OLED specs:
7.4-inch (1280 x 800)HDR OLED touch display
90Hz refresh rate
16:10 aspect ratio
1,000 nits brightness (HDR)
600 nits brightness (SDR)
AMD APU
CPU: Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32)
GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.6GHz (1.6 TFlops FP32)
APU power: 4-15W
16 GB LPDDR5 on-board RAM (6400 MT/s quad 32-bit channels)
512GB, 1TB NVMe SSD
microSD card slot
A B X Y buttons
D-pad
L & R analog triggers
L & R bumpers
View & Menu buttons
4 x assignable grip buttons
2 x full-size analog sticks with capacitive touch
HD haptics
2 x 32.5mm square trackpads with haptic feedback
Pressure-sensitivity for configurable click strength
6-Axis IMU
USB-C with DisplayPort 1.4 Alt-mode support; up to 8K @60Hz or 4K @120Hz, USB 3.2 Gen 2
Tri-band Wi-Fi 6E radio, 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz 2 x 2 MIMO, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
Bluetooth 5.3
SteamOS 3.0 (Arch-based)
Stereo with embedded DSP
Dual microphone array
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
50Whr battery (3 – 12 hours of gameplay)
45W USB Type-C PD3.0 power supply
298 x 117 x 49mm
640 grams

Cristina Joy Valerio

Cristina Joy D. Valerio, more commonly known as CJ to most, is a Multimedia Producer at Yugatech. She has an interest in the evolving world that is technology. Apart from that, she organizes D&D sessions, plays video games, and watches anime to kill time. CJ's alma mater is iACADEMY and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology specializing in Web Development.