Steam Deck OLED GPU vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	44	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	22.43	no data
Power efficiency	15.60	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	TU102	Sephiroth
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 September 2018 (6 years ago)	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4352	512
Core clock speed	1350 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz	1600 MHz
Number of transistors	18,600 million	2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	420.2	51.20
Floating-point processing power	13.45 TFLOPS	1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs	88	16
TMUs	272	32
Tensor Cores	544	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	68	8

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	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	298 mm
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	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	GDDR6	LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	11 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	352 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	616.0 GB/s	88 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x USB Type-C
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 September 2018	9 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount	11 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	15 Watt

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