The MangoHUD version shown in the performance overlay clearly is different in the screenshot (Gundam LCD is v0.6.9-1-22-g1d8f9f6 and OLED is v0.7.0-54g9393066). So possibly one is on 3.5 and one on 3.5.1 which is not as bad as 3.4 vs 3.5, but still not properly matched.
The color saturation slider is of course not the real deal. But it makes the colors pop more, which is part of what people want.
As another comment pointed out, the SMT bug is also fixed in 3.5.
The move to faster memory definitely helps performance, as was shown by those who overclocked the LPDDR5 on their launch models.
But the effect of both is game dependent, you can’t say it is all one or the other.
Don’t starve together
It takes two
Towerfall Ascension
Vampire Survivors
Coop racing I don’t know many games, but if splitscreen versus mode is ok then Horizon Chase Turbo.
I think getting the OLED is a no-brainer unless your budget is severely limited. It is just so much better, besides the screen also in AAA gaming battery life.
Anyone have insight as to whether this would be enough? She likes cyberpunk, RDR2, and Control.
The easiest way to find out if all these games fit on the internal SSD simultaneously is to add up the minimum disk space requirements from the Steam store page
Total: 262 GB (297 GB with CP2077 DLC)
So obviously these games won’t fit in a 256 GB model, you need 512 GB.
According to Steam Hardware survey, less than 5% of PC gamers have >12 core CPUs, similarly for GPUs which are faster than 7800XT combined.
I’d call that pretty top spec.
If your computer runs Windows, you need to install an ext4 filesystem driver to be able to read and write to the card after it was formatted in the Steam Deck.