Steam Deck GPU: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Steam Deck GPU sales 25 February 2022. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 88 GB/s.

Its manufacturer default version has a length of 298 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 15 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Steam Deck GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Van Gogh
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	25 February 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Steam Deck GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Steam Deck GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	2,400 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	51.20	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	1.638 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Ray Tracing Cores	8	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Steam Deck GPU and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Length	298 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Steam Deck GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	88 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Steam Deck GPU. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

APIs supported by Steam Deck GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Steam Deck GPU. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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