Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs RTX A500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking312not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.06no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA107RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 November 2021 (3 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 cores2048512
Core clock speed1440 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Wattno data
Texture fill rate113.3no data
Floating-point processing power7.25 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs64no data
Tensor Cores64no data
Ray Tracing Cores16no 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 4.0 x8no 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth112.0 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 Ultimate (12_2)12_1
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2021 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A500 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A500 is a workstation card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA RTX A500
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