Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs Pro V540

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameNavi 12RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)9 November 2023 (less than a 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 cores2304512
Core clock speed1000 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Wattno data
Texture fill rate230.4no data
Floating-point processing power7.373 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs144no 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 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno 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 typeHBM2no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width2048 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth512.0 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 Connectors1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4ano data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro V540 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro V540 is a workstation card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Pro V540
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