Radeon Steam Deck 8CU vs RX 6300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking358not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency31.36no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameNavi 24RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data9 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 cores768512
Core clock speed1000 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2040 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Wattno data
Texture fill rate97.92no data
Floating-point processing power3.133 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs48no data
Ray Tracing Cores12no 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 x4no data
WidthIGPno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width32 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth64 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 Connectors2x HDMI 2.1no data
HDMI+-

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
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6300 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6300 is a desktop card while Radeon Steam Deck 8CU is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6300
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