Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking356not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataRDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataRDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)9 November 2023 (1 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 cores8512
Core clock speed1278 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm

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.

Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Apple M1 8-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Steam Deck 8CU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 8-Core GPU and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.


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