Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs NV17 A5

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)	RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	NV17 A5	RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	no data	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	512
Boost clock speed	no data	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	29 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	6 nm

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.

Shared memory

no data

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	8.0	12_1
OpenGL	1.3	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	no data

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

150 nm

6 nm

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