First demo of Steam running on a Tesla set to arrive next month

Something to look forward to: Several months after we heard that Tesla was working on bringing Steam games to its in-car entertainment system, CEO Elon Musk has announced that the first demo of integration is "probably" going to land next month.

Tesla previously said its RDNA 2-powered infotainment system in the Model S and Model X could deliver 10 TFLOPs of power that puts it on par with the latest consoles. Owners can already play games such as Cuphead on their 17-inch 2,200 × 1,300 displays via Tesla Arcade, and last year's press images suggested The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 would eventually be available. When asked back in February when the games would land, Musk revealed Tesla was working on Steam integration .

Tesla owners are still waiting for those titles, but Musk just tweeted that work was progressing on bringing Steam to the EVs and we could see a demo next month, possibly at the company's shareholders meeting.

We're making progress with Steam integration. Demo probably next month.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2022

There are plenty of questions about how integration will work. The most likely theory is that users will be able to play a selection of Steam games they already own in their Teslas. Just don't expect to be able to play titles (as a passenger) when the cars are in motion: Tesla disabled Passenger Play in December amid a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into the feature.

The redesigned infotainment system in the Teslas is powered by a Navi 23 GPU—found in the Radeon RX 6650 XT and other AMD cards—that's rumored to sport 28 compute units clocked up to 2.8 GHz. A teardown confirmed it also has a quad-core Ryzen Embedded CPU, likely a Zen+ model.

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