GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Steam Deck GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVan GoghGA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 February 2022 (2 years ago)19 October 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 cores5124864
Core clock speed1000 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors2,400 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate51.20253.1
Floating-point processing power1.638 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs32152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Cores838

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Length298 mm242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

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 typeLPDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 GB/s608.3 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 Connectors1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2022 19 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 225 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1400% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between Steam Deck GPU and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.


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