Valve's $1,049 Steam Machine ships, and a salvaged mining box has more bandwidth (store.steampowered.com)
The Steam Machine runs a semi-custom 6nm AMD APU at ~288 GB/s memory bandwidth and ships with 1GbE networking; to dodge scalpers, Valve gates sales through a Switch-2-style reservation lottery that closes June 25. Owners of the BC-250, a salvaged AMD mining card turned SteamOS box, noted theirs clocks 448 GB/s and costs a fraction as much.
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