Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs 610M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking792not rated
Place by popularity33not in top-100
Power efficiency13.03no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameDragon RangeRDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores128512
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2200 MHz1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.5632 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data
Ray Tracing Cores2no 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
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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno 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
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Radeon 610M has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Steam Deck 8CU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 610M and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 610M
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