Steam Deck OLED APU vs Ryzen 5 3500U

Place in performance ranking	1261	1273
Place by popularity	32	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+)	Van Gogh (Custom)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)
Current price	$672	no data

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U 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	4 (Quad-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	8	84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	128K (per core)	256 KB
L2 cache	512K (per core)	2 MB
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	no data
Socket	FP5	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck OLED APU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	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	+	+
FMA	+	+
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck OLED APU are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck OLED APU. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4
Maximum memory size	64 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck OLED APU.

PCIe version	3.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	12	no data

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.

Ryzen 5 3500U 4.49
+1.4%

Steam Deck OLED APU 4.43

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Steam Deck OLED APU by 1% based on our aggregate benchmark results.