Although the Valve’s Steam Deck pocket console does one of the most interesting news of this market in the last yearwe must not forget that we are talking about a portable video game console, which is designed to be used anywhere, and which therefore maintains a balance between portability, measured size and weight, and the components from which it is made, and which depends, of course, on their performance move games from the Steam catalog.

In other words, Steam Deck hardware is compatible, what it is is very good and as we have seen in some tests in recent months, it can handle some rather demanding titles, such as the sensational Portal. But of course I emphasize “what is it for” and that we can’t want a portable console to offer components and performance comparable to a gaming PC, right?

Well, maybe that’s not entirely true in the end, and it ismodders sometimes surprise us with gatherings worthy of admirationand that, although not entirely useful in practice (if not at all), they at least show us that many things are not impossible, even though we thought so, and that with ingenuity, free time, and a good budget, it is possible to put the Saturn IV rocket engine into Seat. Panda.

And if you think I’m exaggerating, I invite you to watch a video that youtuber ETA PRIME recently uploaded to his channel. A video in which, as I have already advanced in the title, you can see step by step how to connect the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card to the Steam Deck. In addition, a process that is not particularly complicated and that does not require manipulation, which could damage the graphics card or Steam Deck.

And how did he achieve that? Remember that Steam Deck has a PCI-Express M.2 x4 connector? With this starting point, it is only necessary to have an external eGPU module that allows us to connect the card to the specified Steam Deck interface. From here, and with a few modifications, it is possible to play several titles with 4K resolution and graphic settings in Ultra mode, which the ordinary Steam Deck could not even dream of.

Now, at this point, it is important to clarify that although it works and is fun to watch, we are not talking about really practical options. First, of course, because we sacrifice portability of the console, but above all because the performance is far from what we would like. And it is so that due to this huge disproportion between the GPU and the CPU, the bottleneck is constant as we can imagine, and we can also confirm this by seeing in the video that many games are not working properly, something we can blame for this discrepancy performance.