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Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off
One of the most requested pieces of Digital Foundry content has been a comparison between Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve's…
Watch on YouTube Before we crack on with the head-to-head, well, to help our understanding of the Cyberpunk port and any potential comparisons with Steam Deck and by extension the PC version, we needed to compare the two directly to get some kind of ballpark settings lock - not easy when the game has custom adjustments made for the Nintendo console. Lowest frame-rates are actually marginally worse than the quality mode here and the opening of the sequence sees Deck take the battle to Switch 2 in what may be a CPU limited area, bearing in mind how XeSS and FSR 3 offer similar results. | Image credit: Digital Foundry All of which brings us on to handheld performance testing, arguably more relevant bearing in mind that Steam Deck has few pretensions for offering any kind of home console experience.
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