Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs Iris Plus Graphics 950

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking571not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency29.89no data
ArchitectureGeneration 11.0 (2019−2021)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameIce Lake GT2RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data9 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 cores512512
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.024 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs32no 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 3.0 x1no data
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
OpenGL4.6no data

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics 950 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Plus Graphics 950 is a desktop card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics 950
Iris Plus Graphics 950
AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU
Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

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