One thing to sit up for: A number of months after we heard that Tesla was engaged on bringing Steam video games to its in-car leisure system, CEO Elon Musk has introduced that the primary demo of integration is “in all probability” going to land subsequent month.
Tesla beforehand stated its RDNA 2-powered infotainment system within the Mannequin S and Mannequin X might ship 10 TFLOPs of energy that places it on par with the most recent consoles. Homeowners can already play video games comparable to Cuphead on their 17-inch 2,200 × 1,300 shows through Tesla Arcade, and final 12 months’s press photos urged The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 would ultimately be out there. When requested again in February when the video games would land, Musk revealed Tesla was engaged on Steam integration.
Tesla house owners are nonetheless ready for these titles, however Musk simply tweeted that work was progressing on bringing Steam to the EVs and we might see a demo subsequent month, presumably on the firm’s shareholders assembly.
We’re making progress with Steam integration. Demo in all probability subsequent month.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2022
There are many questions on how integration will work. The most definitely concept is that customers will be capable of play a number of Steam video games they already personal of their Teslas. Simply do not count on to have the ability to play titles (as a passenger) when the vehicles are in movement: Tesla disabled Passenger Play in December amid a Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration investigation into the characteristic.
The redesigned infotainment system within the Teslas is powered by a Navi 23 GPU—discovered within the Radeon RX 6650 XT and different AMD playing cards—that is rumored to sport 28 compute models clocked as much as 2.8 GHz. A teardown confirmed it additionally has a quad-core Ryzen Embedded CPU, probably a Zen+ mannequin.