Steam Deck GPU vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking19not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation22.70no data
Power efficiency13.77no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102Van Gogh
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)25 February 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores10240512
Core clock speed1365 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate532.851.20
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPS1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs11216
TMUs32032
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores808

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 4.0 x16no data
Length285 mm298 mm
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XLPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth912.4 GB/s88 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 May 2021 25 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 15 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 8 months, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 2233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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