While AMD is increasingly switching to consoles, Nvidia and Intel attempt to draw partners in the gaming console industry as well. So far, it seemed as if the only manufacturer of graphics cards for Valve’s Steam Box would be Nvidia. AMD GPUs represents a good compromise between quality and cost–AMD APU allows a very good gaming performance at a reasonable price compared to its Intel and Nvidia counterparts.But after the formalization of the specifics of Steam Machine, Valve has revealed that the gaming console will also be based on AMD hardware. Not only will Intel and Nvidia provide components as speculated, Valve said it is also working closely with the other manufacturers (including AMD) in order to offer its customers a wider choice. Doug Lombardi, Valve’s spokesman, responded to Forbes that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year.
“Last week, we posted some technical specs of our first wave of Steam Machine prototypes. Although the graphics hardware that we’ve selected for the first wave of prototypes is a variety of Nvidia cards, that is not an indication that Steam Machines are Nvidia-only. In 2014, there will be Steam Machines commercially available with graphics hardware made by AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. Valve has worked closely together with all three of these companies on optimizing their hardware for SteamOS, and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future,” he said.
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