Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

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G210 OEM Rev. 2 G210 OEM Rev. 2
Steam Deck 8CU Steam Deck 8CU

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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGT218RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 August 2009 (15 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 cores16512
Core clock speed589 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors260 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.712no data
Floating-point processing power0.04486 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno 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 typeDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount128 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed400 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGAno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12_1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 24 August 2009 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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