According to the leak, Valve seems to be releasing a brand new Valve gaming console, the Valve Fremont with a custom AMD Hawk Point 2 SoC packing 6 cores (likely ZEN 3 or newer) and a Radeon RX 7600 GPU. The Valve Fremor has appeared in Geekbench, sporting a high-performance design and targeting a new-generation game machine.
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Originally found by @SadlyItsBradley in the Geekbench database, the device is listed as the Valve Fremont, likely a gaming console. Code-named “Fremont,” it uses a custom AMD CPU called the “1772,” Family 25 Model 124 Stepping 0 This SoC is connected with either AMD Hawk Point 2 or Gorgon Point.
The Valve Fremont packs an AMD SoC with 6 cores and 12 threads as per the Geekbench listing. The chip is based off the Zen 4 architecture and utilizes a 4nm process node. It features 16MB L3 cache, 6MB L2 cache, and a base clock of 3.20 GHz with boosts speeds of up to 4.80GHz as well. Specifically mentioning for FP7 socket, which further underlines indication of Valve Fremont custom arounds SoC.
Vs Valve Fremont Vs Steam Deck OLED
In comparison, Valve’s own Galileo (Steam Deck OLED) and Jupiter (Steam Deck) handhelds use Van Gogh-based SoCs with 4 cores and 8 threads on Zen 2, but with lower clock speeds and smaller caches. Here’s how Valve Fremont improves:
- 4 Zen 2 cores vs. 6 Zen 4 cores
- 12 threads vs 8 threads
- 3.2 GHz base vs 2.8 GHz base
- Boost of 4.8 GHz vs Boost of 3.5 GHz
- L3 cache size: 16 MB vs 4 MB
- Differences in L2 cache sizes: 6 MB Vs 2 MB
- The 8CU RDNA 2 GPU Base Config (vs Radeon RX 7600 RDNA 3 GPU)
As for the Steam Deck OLED, that performance jump is obviously a massive one, as we would expect from the Valve Fremont.
Valves Fremont featuring Radeon RX 7600 RDNA 3 GPU
The big one, however, is what sits inside the Valve Fremont GPU. It is said to pack a Radeon RX 7600 GPU that is based on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture. This looks like a discrete solution, unlike integrated GPUs of yesteryear, with anywhere between 28-32 compute units and at least 8GB of dedicated memory. This is a big jump over the 8CU RDNA 2 GPU inside of the Steam Deck OLED.
Performance Benchmarks of Valve Fremont
Single-core performance in Geekbench 6, where the Valve Fremont received 2412 points, and multi-core testing, where it’s impressed with 7451 points. The new Zen 4 architecture provides nearly double the performance relative to Steam Deck OLED devices but is limited to only 8 GB of memory—less than the 16 GB of handheld models.
But it was Valve Fremont: Will It Be Console or Handheld?
More interestingly, prior leaks indicate that the Valve Fremont is a gaming console rather than a handheld. Correspondingly, it is using DDR5-5600 memory rather than the LPDDR5-8533 memory that you typically see in handhelds. As such, Valve Fremont could be the one that becomes a part of this new wave of SteamOS consoles — and not just limited to handheld gaming devices, either.
Conclusion
This one in particular is perhaps the biggest leap forward in gaming hardware for Valve, featuring an AMD Hawk Point 2 SoC with Zen 4 CPU cores and a Radeon RX 7600 GPU. The Valve Fremont doubles processing power vs Steam Deck OLED although there is a new powerful RDNA 3 GPU, which means Valve wants in on the performance console game.
FAQ
A new gaming console from Valve registered on Geekbench, termed as Valve Fremont, integrated with AMD Hawk point 2 SoC (featuring Zen 4 CPU cores as well as a Radeon RX 7600 GPU).
The Zen 4 cores carry much better CPU performance than what we expect from the Steam Deck and the hardware for easy comparison looks at this thread here and also ready to deliver a faster Radeon RX 7600 RDNA 3 GPU over the Steam Deck OLED’s RDNA 2 GPU Valve Fremont.
While speculation has been rampant about the handheld being the machine referred to as Valve Fremont, leaks indicate that this is considerably far removed from the design seen in any sort of handheld, and its memory configuration is more in line with a gaming console than a handheld.
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