Early Access: Steam Deck vs Fortnite on Unreal Engine 5: Lumen, Nanite, Hardware RT Tested (Patreon)

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Steam Deck's processor has only 1.6GHz of peak GPU compute, less than half the CPU power of Xbox Series and PS5 consoles and is power constrained to just 15W. So what hope does it stand of running the cutting-edge features of Unreal Engine 5? Rich puts the latest version of Fortnite to the test, deploying Nanite micro-geometry and ray-traced Lumen on the handheld - with some surprising results. Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to DF Retro, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies or pullovers? Check out our store: https://bit.ly/2BqRTt0