Steam Deck OLED APU vs Apple M3 Max 16-Core

Place in performance ranking	183	1328
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Apple M3	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Architecture codename	no data	Van Gogh (Custom) (2023)
Release date	30 October 2023 (less than a year ago)	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Apple M3 Max 16-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	16 (Hexadeca-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	16	8
Base clock speed	2.748 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	4.06 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	no data	2 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	3 nm	6 nm
Number of transistors	92000 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Apple M3 Max 16-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Power consumption (TDP)

78 Watt

15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Apple M3 Max 16-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M3 Max 16-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU

AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Apple M3 Max 16-Core 26.45
+494%

Steam Deck OLED APU 4.45

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Apple M3 Max 16-Core 3264
+374%

Steam Deck OLED APU 689

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	26.45	4.45
Physical cores	16	4
Threads	16	8
Chip lithography	3 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	78 Watt	15 Watt

Apple M3 Max 16-Core has a 494.4% higher aggregate performance score, 300% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Steam Deck OLED APU, on the other hand, has 420% lower power consumption.

The Apple M3 Max 16-Core is our recommended choice as it beats the Steam Deck OLED APU in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Apple M3 Max 16-Core and Steam Deck OLED APU, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.