Apple Vision Pro (M5) vs Steam Frame

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Vision Pro (M5)

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Steam Frame

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Choose the Vision Pro (M5) if

Apple users who'll use it daily as a private movie theater and a large virtual Mac display.

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Choose the Steam Frame if

Steam players with a big SteamVR library who want wireless PC VR and standalone play in one light headset.

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At a glance

Key differences

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Why pick theVision Pro (M5)0 wins

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Why pick theSteam Frame2 wins

+20%Smoother motion144 vs 120 Hz

−360 gLighter in the hand440 vs 800 g

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Full specs

Side-by-side specifications

Display1 difference

Refresh rate

120 Hz

144 Hz

Performance2 differences

RAM

16 GB

Storage (max)

256GB, 512GB, 1TB

256 GB or 1 TB UFS; microSD expansion

Chipset

Apple M5 (10-core CPU: 4 super + 6 efficiency cores; 10-core GPU with Neural Accelerators and ray tracing; 16-core Neural Engine; 153GB/s) + Apple R1 (12 ms photon-to-photon latency, 256GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (ARM64, 4 nm)

Design1 difference

Weight

800 g

440 g

General1 difference

Released

2025-10-22

2026-06-01

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