Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking436not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.63no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGP107RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2018 (6 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 cores640512
Core clock speed1190 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1328 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate53.12no data
Floating-point processing power1.7 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1752 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth112.1 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2018 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
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