Yeah you're right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

wtf happened at dead cells? I mean I almost don't believe the results

[–] Laser@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn't very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can't get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This explains why Windows laptops just randomly start spinning their fans. Random energy consumption -> heat production increased -> fan spins

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It takes a lot of power to send half your life to the other side of the world, to MS datawarehouse.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do we know if it's entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What else would it be coming from on the exact same hardware?

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Drivers possibly? I don't mean it as a dig at SteamOS, I'm just curious where the discrepancy is from.