Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs RX 580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking244not rated
Place by popularity1not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation18.55no data
Power efficiency8.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code namePolaris 20RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)9 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 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 cores2304512
Core clock speed1257 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1340 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattno data
Texture fill rate193.0no data
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no 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 3.0 x16no data
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck 8CU has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 is a desktop card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.


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