Benchmarks allegedly belonging to a new Valve console, codenamed “Valve Fremont”, have leaked on the Geekbench repository. While the performance metrics on it aren’t gospel to gaming performance, it’s the hardware of the console that’s got us interested.
Supposedly, Valve Fremont is being powered by a custom 6-core AMD CPU. Additionally, it has 16MB of L3 Cachce, a base clock of 3.2GHz and boost clock of 4.8GHz, but more importantly, the listing states that the CPU is using AMD’s Hawk Point 2 models, indicating that it is the Zen 4 architecture. Interestingly, the console is listed as running on 8GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, which is considered paltry by today’s average of 16GB and 32GB.
Given its 6-core nature, it’s possible that the custom CPU is a Ryzen 5 in nature and more specifically, a Ryzen 5 220. That processor model also features an integrated Radeon 740M GPU, comprising four RDNA3 compute units, translating into 512 Stream Processors.
But that last bit appears to be missing from the Geekbench page of Valve Fremont. Instead, a separate rumour from a post on X suggests that the console has a dedicated GPU. Specifically, an AMD Radeon RX 7600. While it isn’t a mid-tier or top-tier Radeon 7000 Series GPU, recent driver updates from team Red have improved its performance substantially.
It should be clear that the Valve Fremont console isn’t going to be a Steam Deck successor, and Valve has made it clear in the past that such development is “going to take a few years”. Instead, Fremont is reportedly going to be a TV-focused PC box or console running SteamOS, complete with its own dedicated HDMI output port. If this sounds very similar to the short-lived Steam Machine, you’d actually be forgiven for thinking that.
