Benchmark leak for ‘Valve Fremont’ could be a Steam Machine running SteamOS, with an RX 7600-level GPU
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The name Valve Fremont isn’t new. It first appeared back in December last year when a Reddit user named coolbho3k spotted it. At the time, it looked like Valve was testing a new SteamOS-based device called Fremont. Many thought it could be a successor to the old Steam Machines, which were Valve’s first attempts at a home console. If true, Fremont could mark Valve’s return to living room gaming after years of focusing on the Steam Deck.
Back then, there wasn’t much to go on. People had different ideas about what it could be. Some believed it might even be a Steam Deck successor, but nothing else came out after the first leak. For months, there were no new updates, and many assumed it was just another test project that would never see the light of day. That has now changed, because Fremont has just appeared on Geekbench, and this time we have actual specifications.
Valve Fremont is powered by an RX 7600 graphics card
The Geekbench listing confirms that Valve Fremont is powered by a 6-core CPU that can reach speeds of up to 4.8 GHz. The processor is based on Zen 4 cores, and the device comes packed with 8GB of DDR5 5600 MHz RAM. On the graphics side, the device uses a Radeon RX 7600 series GPU, as per the Geekbench JSON entry, though the exact model is not confirmed yet.
Source: Geekbench
Source: Geekbench, via VideoCardz
When tested, Fremont scored 2,412 points in the single-core benchmark and 7,451 points in the multi-core test. These numbers are solid but not groundbreaking. For comparison, the Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip, which is based on newer Zen 5 cores, scored 2,748 in single-core and 12,182 in multi-core.
Right now, nothing else is known about the device. The benchmark leak doesn’t confirm if Fremont is going to be released as a product or if Valve is simply testing hardware behind the scenes. It could be the start of a new home console from Valve, or it could be a project that never makes it beyond the testing phase. Either way, the fact that Fremont has finally appeared again after months of silence makes things very exciting for fans. All we know is that the return of Steam Machines is a real possibility, given all the development Valve has put behind SteamOS since the launch of the Steam Deck.
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