"The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead a home console sibling to the Steam Deck. Valve introduced its second attempt at ruling the living room in a surprise hardware announcement in November 2025, and paired the new Steam Machine with a new Steam Controller and a wireless VR headset it calls the Steam Frame. Since the announcement, as is often the case with Valve, some details remain elusive, however."
"The PC is a black, 5.98 x 6.39 x 6.14 inch (152 x 162.4 x 156mm) box, with ports and a grille for a fan in the back and a removable faceplate and customizable LED light strip in the front. Inside, Valve says the Steam Machine features a "semi-custom" AMD Zen 4 CPU with six cores and up to 4.8GHz clock speeds, and a "semi-custom" RDNA3 AMD GPU, along with 16GB DDR RAM, 8GB GDDR6 VRAM and either 512GB or 2TB of storage."
Valve revived the Steam Machine as a compact living-room Linux PC scheduled for 2026 and bundled it with a new Steam Controller and a wireless VR headset called the Steam Frame. The chassis is a small black box with a removable faceplate, customizable LED strip, rear ports and a fan grille. Internal hardware includes a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 six-core CPU, a semi-custom RDNA3 GPU, 16GB DDR system RAM, 8GB GDDR6 VRAM and 512GB or 2TB storage options. Valve says many Steam titles play well at 4K 60FPS using AMD FSR upscaling, though some games may require lower internal resolutions or framerates.
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