Steam Deck OLED APU: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor benchmark performance at 4.44% of a leader's which is Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
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 84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4, DDR4 memory.
Primary Details
Steam Deck OLED APU processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1242 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) | |
| Architecture codename | Van Gogh (Custom) | |
| Release date | 9 November 2023 (less than a 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 | 84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
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 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
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 | 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 | + |
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, DDR4 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Steam Deck OLED APU.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU |
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.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Steam Deck OLED APU is Core i7-6820HQ, which is nearly equal in speed and lower 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 21 configurations based on Steam Deck OLED APU in our database.
