Radeon Steam Deck 8CU: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon Steam Deck 8CU provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.66% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
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 | 481 | |
| 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 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 29 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low
| Counter-Strike 2 | 55−60 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 18−20 |
Full HD
Medium
| Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 55−60 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 30−35 | |
| Fortnite | 60−65 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 45−50 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 30−35 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 18−20 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 35−40 | |
| Valorant | 95−100 |
Full HD
High
| Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 55−60 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 150−160 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 27 | |
| Fortnite | 60−65 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 45−50 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 30−35 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 10 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 18−20 | |
| Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 35−40 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 27−30 | |
| Valorant | 95−100 |
Full HD
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 23 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 45−50 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 18−20 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 35−40 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 27−30 | |
| Valorant | 95−100 |
Full HD
Epic
| Fortnite | 60−65 |
1440p
High
| Counter-Strike 2 | 18−20 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 75−80 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16 | |
| Metro Exodus | 12−14 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 60−65 | |
| Valorant | 110−120 |
1440p
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 24−27 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9−10 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 24−27 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 10−12 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 |
1440p
Epic
| Fortnite | 21−24 |
4K
High
| Counter-Strike 2 | 5−6 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 21−24 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 | |
| Metro Exodus | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Valorant | 55−60 |
4K
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 12−14 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 5−6 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 10−11 |
4K
Epic
| Fortnite | 10−11 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, which is faster by 4% and higher by 9 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Steam Deck 8CU:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon Steam Deck 8CU according to our statistics.
