Steam Deck OLED APU vs Apple M3 Pro 12-Core

Place in performance ranking	431	1273
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Apple M3	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Architecture codename	no data	Van Gogh (Custom)
Release date	30 October 2023 (less than a year ago)	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	12 (Dodeca-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	126 x 4.1 GHz Apple M3 P-Core6 x 2.7 GHz Apple M3 E-Core	84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2
Base clock speed	2.748 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	4.06 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	no data	2 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	3 nm	6 nm
Number of transistors	37000 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Apple M3 Pro 12-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Power consumption (TDP)

27 Watt

15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Apple M3 Pro 12-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	DDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	no data	+
FMA	no data	+
AVX	no data	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M3 Pro 12-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU

AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core 15.18
+243%

Steam Deck OLED APU 4.43

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core outperforms Steam Deck OLED APU by 243% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core 2163
+214%

Steam Deck OLED APU 689

Apple M3 Pro 12-Core outperforms Steam Deck OLED APU by 214% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	15.18	4.43
Physical cores	12	4
Threads	126 x 4.1 GHz Apple M3 P-Core6 x 2.7 GHz Apple M3 E-Core	84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2
Chip lithography	3 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	15 Watt