A Suprising Discovery Inside The Steam Deck's APU - the LCD APU has multiple unused cores that were later removed for the OLED version - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    the 290 to 290x situation was basically the same. You had to get a cpu/gpu that was fully working, but artificially limited to to provide for the numbers of the lower tier product due to demand. with all of the unlockable chips, its was very specific time windows where it was possible to get a functional one.