Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 487 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | no data | RDNA 2 (2022−2023) |
| GPU code name | no data | RDNA 2 Sephiroth |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 3 March 2026 (less than a year 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 | 40 | 512 |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1900 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | no data | 6 nm |
| L1 Cache | no data | 512 KB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 1 MB |
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 | LPDDR5x-8533 | no data |
| Shared memory | no data | + |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | no data | 12_1 |
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