Radeon Steam Deck 8CU: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon Steam Deck 8CU sales 9 November 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on a RDNA 2 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Steam Deck 8CU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2 (2022−2023) | |
| GPU code name | RDNA 2 Sephiroth | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 9 November 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon Steam Deck 8CU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Steam Deck 8CU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Boost clock speed | 1900 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Steam Deck 8CU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Shared memory | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon Steam Deck 8CU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12_1 |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon Steam Deck 8CU according to our statistics.
