Steam Deck OLED APU vs Xeon Phi 7210

Place in the ranking	1286	1284
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Power efficiency	2.02	29.06
Architecture codename	Knights Landing (2016)	Van Gogh (Custom) (2023)
Release date	20 June 2016 (8 years ago)	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon Phi 7210 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	64 (Tetrahexaconta-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	256	8
Base clock speed	1.3 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	1.5 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	32 KB (per core)	256 KB
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	2 MB
L3 cache	0 KB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	6 nm
Number of transistors	8,000 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Phi 7210 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	no data
Socket	3647	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	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	+	+
vPro	+	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data

Security technologies

Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.77	4.78
Recency	20 June 2016	9 November 2023
Physical cores	64	4
Threads	256	8
Chip lithography	14 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	15 Watt

Xeon Phi 7210 has 1500% more physical cores and 3100% more threads.

Steam Deck OLED APU, on the other hand, has a 0.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1333.3% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU.

Be aware that Xeon Phi 7210 is a server/workstation processor while Steam Deck OLED APU is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon Phi 7210 and Steam Deck OLED APU, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.