Steam Deck OLED GPU vs Radeon RX Vega M
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 378 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 81.18 | no data |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025) |
| GPU code name | Vega | Sephiroth |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 1 February 2018 (8 years ago) | 9 November 2023 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | 512 |
| Core clock speed | 720 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1190 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 4,500 million | 2,400 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 6 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 38.08 | 51.20 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 1.638 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 32 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 8 |
| L0 Cache | no data | 128 KB |
| L1 Cache | no data | 128 KB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 1024 KB |
| L3 Cache | no data | 8 MB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | IGP | no data |
| Length | no data | 298 mm |
| Width | IGP | no data |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | System Shared | LPDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1375 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 176.0 GB/s |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | 1x USB Type-C |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.3 |
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