Steam Deck GPU vs Radeon R9 390X2

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameno dataVan Gogh
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data25 February 2022 (2 years ago)
Current priceno data$15.29

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 coresno data512
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,400 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.20

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).

Lengthno data298 mm
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 type512LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus width5400 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data88 GB/s

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 Connectorsno data1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR512 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390X2 and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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