Valve's living-room console runs the same Arch Linux-based SteamOS that powers the Steam Deck, and the company has now attached a price to the hardware. The compact 6-inch cube starts at $1,050 (€950) for the 512GB configuration and climbs to $1,350 (€1,250) for the 2TB model. Adding a Steam Controller pushes those figures to roughly $1,128 and $1,428 respectively.
Inside the Steam Machine sits a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 APU with 6 cores and 12 threads, paired with an RDNA3 GPU carrying 28 compute units. The system pairs 16GB of DDR5 with a dedicated 8GB pool of GDDR6 VRAM. Valve pegs the machine at roughly six times the performance of the Steam Deck and targets 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR upscaling.
The software story is the more interesting one for anyone tracking desktop Linux gaming. SteamOS 3 is built on Arch Linux with a KDE Plasma desktop underneath the console interface, and it leans on the open source Mesa graphics stack and the Proton compatibility layer to run Windows titles. Recent Proton builds run the large majority of the Steam catalog without manual tweaking, with kernel-level anti-cheat remaining the main category of holdouts. Because it is a standard Linux box rather than a locked appliance, the Steam Machine can drop to a desktop, install other software, or be repurposed well beyond gaming.
Valve is handling demand through a randomized reservation system rather than first-come ordering. A one-time randomization of the pre-order queue begins on 2026-06-25, with full details posted on the official store page.
