Steam Deck GPU: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Steam Deck GPU sales 25 February 2022. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 88 GB/s.
Its manufacturer default version has a length of 298 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 15 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Steam Deck GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Van Gogh | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 25 February 2022 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Steam Deck GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Steam Deck GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1600 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,400 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 51.20 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.638 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 8 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Steam Deck GPU and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Length | 298 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Steam Deck GPU: 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.
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 88 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Steam Deck GPU. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x USB Type-C |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Steam Deck GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Steam Deck GPU is GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost.
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 Steam Deck GPU according to our statistics.
