Steam Deck GPU vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking383not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAmethystVan Gogh
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 November 2014 (10 years ago)25 February 2022 (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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048512
Core clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate108.851.20
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs12832
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1362 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.3 GB/s88 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 outputs1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2014 25 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 15 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is a notebook card while Steam Deck GPU is a desktop one.


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