Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs 740M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	505	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	37.93	no data
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)	RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code name	Phoenix	RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 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 cores	256	512
Core clock speed	800 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	25,390 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	40.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	2.56 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	16	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	4	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	System Shared	no data
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	no data
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12_1
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.1	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	4 January 2023	9 November 2023
Chip lithography	4 nm	6 nm

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