Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs RTX 2000 Embedded Ada Generation

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD107RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)

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 cores3072512
Core clock speed1530 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2010 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors18,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate193.0no data
Floating-point processing power12.35 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs96no data
Tensor Cores96no data
Ray Tracing Cores24no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12_1
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

RTX 2000 Embedded Ada Generation has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Steam Deck 8CU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between RTX 2000 Embedded Ada Generation and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 2000 Embedded Ada Generation is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Embedded Ada Generation
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AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU
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