GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

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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 2 (2022−2023)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameRDNA 2 SephirothGB203
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 November 2023 (1 year ago)2025

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 cores5128192
Core clock speedno data1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1900 MHz2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology6 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data512.0
Floating-point processing powerno data32.77 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16

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 typeno dataGDDR7
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 TB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


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AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU
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