Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile 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 (2020−2023)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVan GoghLucienne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 February 2022 (2 years ago)12 January 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 cores512512
Core clock speed1000 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors2,400 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate51.2060.80
Floating-point processing powerno data1.946 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3232
Ray Tracing Cores8no data

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 dataIGP
Length298 mmno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeLPDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5.5 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth88 GB/sno data

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-CPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.21.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2022 12 January 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 25 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Steam Deck GPU and Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Steam Deck GPU is a desktop card while Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile is a notebook one.


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