 Hey guys, Thundie here and welcome back to another gaming battle vid. Today we're taking a look at the brand new Steam Deck OLED and how it compares against the original Steam Deck as well as also everything else in the portable PC gaming market. Now if you're joining us for the very first time go ahead and smash that subscribe button notification icon to watch more videos like this. So the Steam Deck OLED is here, it was announced really quickly out of the blue and it's also quite refreshing to see. I have the limited edition Steam Deck OLED here and it stands out from the original Steam Deck in a couple of ways. For the limited edition you do have reddish orange analog sticks that you can see on either side and then of course when it comes to the overall look it has this kind of like see through a clear globe to it which is nice kind of allowing you to see into the internals. Then of course you've got that reddish orange highlights for the power button as well as also for your fence both the back as well as also the top of the device. You can clearly see the back of the device even the screws also have the same color so just for the limited edition it just stands out quite a bit. Now the Steam Deck OLED starts at 549 and goes up to I believe 699 for the limited edition version and limited edition comes with one terabyte of storage which is what I have here. So what makes it different from the original Steam Deck? Well you might think well it's just because of the color and designs there are a couple of really unique instances that make it stand out. The very first thing is the display. Now with the Steam Deck OLED it is an OLED display instead of of course an LCD display so it's clearly much sharper, brighter and richer in terms of colors. We also have something where it also has a higher knit ratio of up to 1,800 of max brightness so it looks brighter just comparing both of them at the same time and as you can tell the display is also bigger without changing the display size if you will. The original Steam Deck is 7 inches while the Steam Deck OLED is 7.4. They reduce the bezels here to fit in a larger display so you can clearly see that. Now internally there are also some changes from the Steam Deck OLED to the Steam Deck. Now the Steam Deck OLED has a 6 nanometer chipset compared to the 7 nanometer on the Steam Deck regular which will bring in better power efficiency and also better performance according to Valve. We also have Wi-Fi 6C built in and of course the larger storage as I mentioned earlier. So that brings a lot. Now with this new nanometer size and also new cooling as well we also have a situation where the Steam Deck OLED is actually lighter by 30 grams and it feels much lighter when you're using it. It holds and rests pretty light in general in comparison. Now a couple of things that are similar is the fact that of course they both come with cases. I did mention in my last video that the Steam Deck didn't come with a case so I apologize for making that incorrect statement. They do come with cases when you buy them actually in comparison to all other devices here. The Steam Deck OLED and just the Legion Go have cases. None of us do have cases that come with the device. Although the Steam Deck OLED Limited Edition has a unique case that kind of separates I believe also with the regular Steam Deck OLED where you can have a smaller thinner case to travel with that is built into it where you separate out and that's actually pretty cool. So we've seen that there are differences here. What does that mean for performance when you're using the Steam Deck OLED in comparison to the Steam Deck and also the other devices? And these other devices I mentioned include the ROG Ally, the Legion Go and also the 1X Player 2. Now I'm just going to talk about the specs of the 1X Player 2 quite briefly here because it's quite an interesting device. This is powered by a Ryzen 77840U processor with a 7080M GPU. Now for this device though we've got something quite unique. It does come with 32GB of RAM standard compared to the other devices that come with 16GB and you're kind of noticing just general functionality. This is a Windows device in terms of build. Now overall it's got an 8.4 inch display so a massive touch screen display. You've got of course your thumb sticks in that split fashion like the Xbox, X, Y, B buttons, definitely buttons on the top. Your triggers here and there are no buttons at the back so there's nothing here at the back that gives you remappable buttons. But you do have a microSD card slot, a full USB-A, USB Type-C headphone jack, a turbo button, volume rockers as well as a power button there. And then at the bottom another USB Type-C port. But the also cool thing is that this has a built-in kickstand which is nice, allowing you to place it on the table just like the Legion Go. And you also have removable joy cards if you will so you can actually remove that. And it does come, you can get multiple accessories for the OneX Player 2 which includes a dock for those joy cards you can have as a standard controller as well as also a detachable keyboard which magnetically locks at the bottom of the device. So how about giving performance for all these devices that we have here? So let's start off with a very simple one which is a Shadow of the Tomb Raider which is available on Steam and available for all these devices as I mentioned. Shadow of the Tomb Raider on the brand new Steam Deck OLED runs at 66 frames per second on low settings compared to the Steam Deck regular Steam Deck which ran at around 40 to 50 frames per second. When we look at it compared to the other devices like the ROG Ally it also ran at 60 frames per second, the Legion Go 60 frames per second and the OneX Player 2 Pro 60 frames per second. So the Steam Deck OLED actually performs slightly better with an extra six frames there in terms of performance. When we look at the next game here which is Street Fighter 6, this is playable of course on all the devices and we ran Street Fighter 6 and we got the same 60 frames per second on all devices. Steam Deck OLED, Steam Deck, ROG Ally, the OneX Player 2 Pro as well as the Legion Go. Now the final game of course was Doom Eternal where we're able to get some interesting frame rates here on the brand new Steam Deck OLED which also has a 90 Hertz display so it's an improvement from the 60 Hertz. It ran at 90 frames per second for the Steam Deck OLED at low settings 720p in comparison to the other devices the ROG Ally ran at about 80 to 90 and at medium settings and then of low settings around about 110 to 120 the Legion Go also did similar while the OneX Player 2 ran higher to as well closer to about 100 to 110 frames per second. So the higher frame per second on these other devices compared to the Steam Deck OLED. Now that being said though why do we have this kind of slight differences in performance when you look at a game like Shadow of the Tomb Raider in comparison to something like Doom Eternal here with these devices. I think you can attribute it to some of the different things in terms of the difference with the processors where the Legion Go and the ROG Ally both are running the Z1 Extreme processor with Ryzen Z1 Extreme while the OneX Player 2 Pro is running a Ryzen 7 7A40U and the Steam Deck is running a Ryzen APU at 6 nanometers not specify what that chip says. So you're going to get slightly different performance readings but nothing too crazy here within these devices. Now what about software now the Steam Deck OLED is running of course Steam OS compared to the other devices or four other devices are running Windows operating system. This is where the Steam Deck I think still wins because Steam Deck OS is purposely built for these devices so it actually is customized to just jump into the games you want to and it's a very fluid experience while the ROG Ally, the Legion Go as well as also the OneX Player 2 Pro are running Windows and you have to do a lot of updates to make sure your drivers are set and things like that. They do have their own custom operating systems that allow you to go in and change your game settings as well as pick your games but that is just running on Windows not actually running on the system itself so you do have that difference there. Now some of these devices have some really great unique features and those features include detachable controllers and also FPS modes. Looking at the OneX Player 2 Pro this has a very unique approach in the fact that you can dock a keyboard to it magnetically and you can also connect a mouse via Bluetooth either via a dongle on USB or USB type-C allowing for a fresh person shooter experience on here quite easily. Now you can do this on the ROG Ally as well as also the Legion Go but I think that dock really helps in just cutting out this YouTube channel to be in latency. You can also connect it to a controller dock so you can actually use it as a controller with that kickstand built in so that is also nice. Now the Legion Go does something different the right controller is your FPS joystick if you will and it's got that FPS mode which you can switch it to and it gives you also food experience but you do have to remap a lot of buttons to do that so that's something to take note and that's something at least that allows you to use that in a pinch instead of you carrying more accessories while ROG Ally itself doesn't have anything and it's just basically relying on your dual thumbstick so you have to bring accessories if you want to use that as well. Now in regards to temperatures we saw some interesting temperatures with the ROG Ally as well as also the Legion Go at 105 degrees which is actually still pretty good. Both of these systems do have some really good fans for cooling and they do have of course different fan modes. Steam Deck OLED coming in slightly lower than the Steam Deck itself. The Steam Deck was in about 100 degrees while the Steam Deck OLED was about 95 to 100 depending on the game you played but was mostly at 95 degrees and then the One X Player 2 Pro ran in between both of them at around 102 to 107 so depending on the game you do have different temperatures and again this applies to the types of cooling they have as well as the type of processors you're running here. So what about speakers? How well do the speakers sound? Especially with the fact that the One X Player 2 Pro does have a Hamilton speakers and all of them have some very interesting sounding profiles. I'll say for me here the two best speakers are the One X Player 2 Pro with Hamilton much louder and richer especially if you're just listening to the built-in speakers while you're gaming as well as also the Steam Deck OLED. I think the speakers are improved from the original Steam Deck so it's a bit louder but I think the best speakers here are from the One X Player 2. So when we look at all these devices overall you're going to ask yourself the question which one should I pick up? Now we've got varying prices all the way through. You can pick up the ASUS ROG Ally now starting in $449 for the version without the Z1 Extreme and goes all the way up of course to $699. While the Steam Deck itself starts at $349 all the way to the Steam Deck OLED which is about $699, the Limited Edition, the Legion Go is $729 and then the One X Player 2 Pro has a bundle package starting at $1099 that comes with that keyboard and controller as well as also with 32 gigabytes of storage here. Now speaking of storage you do have ways to expand storage on your own for all these devices. The Steam Deck is also pretty easy to do that using a replacement hard drive which you can easily do on your Steam Deck and all the other devices so definitely check out videos for that. I'll have links for you to get eyes down below but something like the Seagate hard drive you can of course upgrade your original Steam Deck from whatever you had to about two terabytes or even things like your Legion Go and ROG Ally these will work well with those two as well so there are options that you can use for all these devices to do it yourself and because the other devices are also Windows spaces these devices reinstall Windows and get it up and running. Now I think that my pick for the best in terms of usability will still be the Steam Deck OLED especially because of the new improvements that make it of course slightly faster better and lighter overall. It's purely a portable PC gaming handheld system and it feels that way being able to jump into your games when you power on and use while the ones that are more flexible are the Windows based ones especially the Legion Go with the ability to use the FPS mode on there and as well as also the one Xperia 2 Pro. I do like the ROG Ally I still think it is the lightest of the bunch but it doesn't have that full custom ability that you expect from all of them so it's a difficult choice and I think the Steam Deck OLED is coming in to probably take that place as the king of all portable PC gaming devices right now we'll have to see if there are others that come out in the future or if there is a Windows based operating system that is geared towards gaming that allows you to jump in and play and you don't have to go through the whole rigmarole of installing tons of Windows updates so if you have any questions any comments guys let me know if I get to like share subscribe let me know which you think which device you think won this battle in here if you think it's a Steam Deck OLED then sure if you think it's the ROG Ally or maybe the One Xperia 2 or even the Legion Go leave your thoughts down below this is Thunder E same thank you and always enjoy and stay with us