Radeon 610M vs Steam Deck GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated792
Place by popularitynot in top-10033
Power efficiencyno data13.02
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVan GoghDragon Range
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 February 2022 (2 years ago)3 January 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 cores512128
Core clock speed1000 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors2,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate51.2017.60
Floating-point processing power1.638 TFLOPS0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328
Ray Tracing Cores82

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 4.0 x8
Length298 mmno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeLPDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth88 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.21.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2022 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm

Radeon 610M has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Steam Deck GPU and Radeon 610M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Steam Deck GPU is a desktop card while Radeon 610M is a notebook one.


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AMD Steam Deck GPU
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