Valve's Steam Machine is as fast as a Ryzen 7000 CPU in leaked benchmarks

Valve's Steam Machine is as fast as a Ryzen 7000 CPU in leaked benchmarks Credit: Valve By  Jon Fingas Published Jun 16, 2026, 4:41 PM EDT Jon is a seasoned journalist who has written definitive coverage of consumer tech at publications like Engadget, Android Authority, and BetaKit. He's an expert on making tech accessible ranging from mobile and PCs to emerging platforms like wearables. When he's not writing, he's going on adventures with ihis family and is an avid photographer. Sign in to your How-To Geek account Add Us On Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap You might just know how well Valve's long-awaited Steam Machine performs. How-To Geek has found benchmarks for the "Valve Fremont" (aka Steam Machine) online ahead of its summer release, and it's not a cutting-edge desktop PC — though that doesn't tell the whole story. The Geekbench 6 listings indicate that the Steam Machine's custom six-core AMD Zen 4 CPU and 16GB of RAM deliver a single-core CPU score of about 2,300, and a multi-core score over 7,300. That puts the performance roughly on par with Ryzen 7000-series processors like the Ryzen 5 7640HS and Ryzen 5 Pro 7540U, depending on the test. There are no GPU tests as of this writing, so graphics performance is still unknown. Valve previously said the Steam Machine would use a custom RDNA3-based GPU with 8GB of video RAM. While that's not quick, it's much faster than the 2022-era Steam Deck (about 1,350 single-core and 4,500 multi-core). It's also important to note that Valve's use of the Linux-based SteamOS and its Proton compatibility layer makes it difficult to translate the benchmarks to real-world speed. There may be optimizations that Geekbench doesn't show, particularly if Valve uses AMD's FSR frame generation upscaling. Is the Steam Mac