Steam Deck OLED APU: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Steam Deck OLED APU provides poor benchmark performance at 4.59% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Steam Deck OLED APU sales 9 November 2023. This is a Van Gogh (Custom) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
Primary details
Steam Deck OLED APU processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1303 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) | |
| Power efficiency | 28.96 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Van Gogh (Custom) (2023) | |
| Release date | 9 November 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Steam Deck OLED APU compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Steam Deck OLED APU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | 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 | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Steam Deck OLED APU's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Steam Deck OLED APU.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU (1000 - 1600 MHz) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Steam Deck OLED APU. Overall benchmark performance 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.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core
7-Zip
CrossMark Overall
WebXPRT 4 Overall
Geekbench 6.3 Multi-Core
Geekbench 6.3 Single-Core
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Steam Deck OLED APU is Core i5-9300HF, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Steam Deck OLED APU, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Steam Deck OLED APU in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 103 configurations using Steam Deck OLED APU in our database.
