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

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Even if you managed to activate them, they would probably not be useful for a gaming handheld, as they were designed for image processing.

Yeah, that's also my theory, and even if you could get it functioning in a way to benefit gaming, it would abso-fucking-lutely make the thermal situation worse.