Steam Deck GPU vs Radeon 550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking609not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.37no data
Power efficiency7.48no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLexaVan Gogh
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)25 February 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 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 cores512512
Core clock speed1100 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate37.8651.20
Floating-point processing power1.211 TFLOPS1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3232
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 x8no data
Length145 mm298 mm
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth56 GB/s88 GB/s

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 HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 25 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 550 and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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