RTX A500 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 rated308
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.39
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVan GoghGA107
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date25 February 2022 (2 years ago)10 November 2021 (3 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 cores5122048
Core clock speed1000 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors2,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate51.20113.3
Floating-point processing power1.638 TFLOPS7.25 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3264
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Cores816

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 x8
Length298 mmno data
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeLPDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 GB/s112.0 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-CNo outputs

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 10 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 3 months, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Steam Deck GPU and RTX A500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Steam Deck GPU is a desktop card while RTX A500 is a workstation one.


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