steam deck and other devices worth?

sooooo... to keep it short, i recently had to move from my beloved workplace where i was able to game on my laptop while at work (was allowed dont worry) to a new place where i still can use devices, but not my laptop though, for some reason laptops are not allowed there, so i was woundering as i have 0 experience with these devices, and want to ask you guys who hopefully have experience with it, how good are they for poe1 and poe2 for semi juiced endgame stuff? only ssf juice that is. i am simply addicted to poe and i work 12h shifts, not letting the addicton die here, let me know whats worth buying and what i can expect if i decide to buy one

When gaming, my CPU uses around 80 watts of power. My video card uses around 250 watts.

The Steam Deck’s CPU w/ integrated graphics is capped at 15 watts (this is not a typo).

I could see getting a Steam deck for the likes of Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, and other indie classics. I could see some older (Skyrim?) or particularly well-optimised games running well on it. I… would have reservations about buying one specifically for Path of Exile.

Would there be any kind of suitable device available you could use for GeForce Now?

If so, test to see whether they block https://play.geforcenow.com/ on their network.

Wattage matters, but some hardware is much more efficient than other.

It helps that the Steam Deck is console-like in that it's popular enough some developers are going to make specific optimizations for its hardware.

For instance consider how even the recently released Clair Obscur has a specific Steam Deck mode that makes it playable on it. Or Elden Ring Nightrein. Or maybe even the ray tracing only (!) Doom : The Dark Ages.

Now, the issue with PoEs is that they are particularly badly optimized, especially CPU-wise, which ought to be especially noticeable in PoE2.

I've played PoE1 this weekend on the Steam Deck, and was decently happy with its performance across all of Act1, this despite using another monitor (through the Steam Dock), with a much bigger resolution of 1920x1200.
(All other settings to minimum, except no upscaling — I guess even a steady 60 FPS should be possible even on that resolution with some amounts of upscaling, because, notably, it was GPU-limited, not CPU-limited during that gameplay.)

The performance of « semi-juiced endgame » might be another matter of course...

(I haven't tried PoE2 on it yet.)

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Nobody should be giving money to Nvidia, but also, in my experience GeForce Now is even more unplayable than regular PoE1 if your connection isn't both fast and rock solid.