Radeon RX 8050S vs Steam Deck GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	150
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)	no data
GPU code name	Van Gogh	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	25 February 2022 (3 years ago)	6 January 2025 (less than a year 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 cores	512	32
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	2800 MHz
Number of transistors	2,400 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	51.20	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.638 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	32	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	8	no data
L0 Cache	128 KB	no data
L1 Cache	128 KB	no data
L2 Cache	1024 KB	no 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).

Length	298 mm	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	LPDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	88 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+
Resizable BAR	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x USB Type-C

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API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

25 February 2022

6 January 2025

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