Xeon E5-2608L V3 vs Steam Deck OLED APU

Place in the ranking	1288	1404
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Server
Series	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	29.09	7.34
Architecture codename	Van Gogh (Custom) (2023)	Haswell-EP (2014−2015)
Release date	9 November 2023 (1 year ago)	8 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3 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	4 (Quad-Core)	6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads	8	6
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.5 GHz	2 GHz
L1 cache	256 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	256K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB	15 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	6 nm	22 nm
Die size	no data	356 mm²
Number of transistors	no data	2,600 million
64 bit support	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	no data	2
Socket	no data	2011-3
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	52 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	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	no data
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	+
vPro	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
TSX	-	+

Security technologies

Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3 are enumerated here.

VT-d	no data	+
VT-x	no data	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR4

DDR4-1866

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	40

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.63	4.05
Recency	9 November 2023	8 September 2014
Physical cores	4	6
Threads	8	6
Chip lithography	6 nm	22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	52 Watt

Steam Deck OLED APU has a 14.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, 33.3% more threads, a 266.7% more advanced lithography process, and 246.7% lower power consumption.

Xeon E5-2608L V3, on the other hand, has 50% more physical cores.

The Steam Deck OLED APU is our recommended choice as it beats the Xeon E5-2608L V3 in performance tests.

Be aware that Steam Deck OLED APU is a notebook processor while Xeon E5-2608L V3 is a server/workstation one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Steam Deck OLED APU and Xeon E5-2608L V3, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.