If anyone feels like doing a project over the festive break, I created a low cost gaming console based on the PS5 APU:
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Any info on how well the hardware is supported by Bazzite, how is the stability and what performance level can be expected?
Its working perfectly fine, just install a custom Governer like this one: GitHub - filippor/cyan-skillfish-governor at throttling
And that’s it, every game I have tested in Steam is excellent, just keep the textures set to medium due to limited ram, but 1080p high for most titles is well over 60fps, in the Discord I have benchmark results, and others have also posted.
Everything is working just fine with Bazzite-Deck, hardware media decode is working as well, Jellyfin app, Kodi etc all playback HEVC content launched through Gamescope or on the Desktop, Haruna also fully supporting HEVC, so very happy with Bazzite on it, makes a fantastic HTPC and Game Console.
Here are some screen shots, all of these were running at 1200p high settings
Amazing! So the PS5 would be a great Steam Machine if it was ever “jail broken”. All driver support is already here. Some custom BIOS would be possibly needed but everything else is covered with Linux.
I dont think that is ever going to happen, well I wont say never, but its very different to this thing, the BC-250 is just a PC, with the PS5 APU slapped on it, the APU has been modified by AMD, 2 CPU cores and 8 CU’s have been fused off due to bin failure.
My project is about building a cheap but capable DIY Steam Machine.
PS5 is just a PC with locked down firmware slapped on it 
Nothing on the PS5, except maybe custom SSD controller, looks any different than PC. Most of the functionality is contained in the APU itself anyway. It’s not called SoC (system on a chip) without a reason.
Some Benchmarks if anyone is interested.
These were run with a thermal limit set to 75C, fan speed range 10 to 60%, GPU Overclocked to 2230Mhz and RAM Overclocked to 1850Mhz.
