14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer and hardware maker Valve says that it plans to use a variety of hardware in its recently announced Steam gaming machines, including graphics-focused solutions from AMD and Intel, in addition to those from Nvidia.
Doug Lombardi, one of the leaders of the company, tells MaximumPC that, “Although the graphics hardware that we've selected for the first wave of prototypes is a variety of Nvidia cards, that is not an indication that Steam Machines are Nvidia-only.”
The developer says that Valve is working with all three graphics processor makers in order to make sure that they are optimizing them to work with SteamOS.
The first 300 prototype Steam machines revealed are using Nvidia solutions including GeForce Titan, GTX 780, GTX 760 and GTX 660.
They also have mostly Intel-made processors and SSDs
Valve-made hardware will be tested early next year and officially launched later in 2014.