By design, the TDP slider on the Steam Deck will put a hard limit on how much power the CPU/GPU can draw from the battery. You can't get much more direct battery savings than that.

A default 'UMA Frame buffer Size' of 1G (1GB) shows in the Steam Deck's 'System' menu as 1,024 MB, while 4G (GB) displays 4 GB. It's the most straightforward way to check that your BIOS changes ...

With the improved thermal potential unlocked by the water-cooling loop, the modder overclocked the Steam Deck using a patching tool to push the Steam Deck's TDP from a stock 15W to 27W.

Valve's Steam Deck has introduced a whole new crowd to PC gaming, and much like a full-fledged desktop or laptop, you can customize it to suit your tastes.

Valve has already issued a fix for a Steam client update that caused boot loops and broke TDP and GPU clock speed sliders. Valve led a bad patch through beta, but fixed it fast. Skip to main content ...