GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Steam Deck GPU
CORE STATE
Van Gogh
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1600 MHz
TDP
15 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 2.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
CORE STATE
GA106
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1777 MHz
TDP
130 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
Steam Deck GPU
RTX 3050 8 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
2,560
+400.0%
Shaders
512
2,560
+400.0%
TMUs
32
80
+150.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
8
—
SM Count
—
20
Clocks
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1552 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
11 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
16 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
16,384
8,192
-50.0%
Memory Type
LPDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
L0 Cache
32 KB per WGP
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
56.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.20 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.638 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
102.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
3.277 TFLOPS (2:1)
9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
8
20
+150.0%
Tensor Cores
—
80
Power
TDP
15 W
130 W
TDP (W)
15
130
+766.7%
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Van Gogh
GA106
Generation
Console GPU
(Valve)
GeForce 30
Process Size
7 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2,400 million
12,000 million
Die Size
163 mm²
276 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
14.7M / mm²
43.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
298 mm
11.7 inches
242 mm
9.5 inches
Height
117 mm
4.6 inches
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
—
249 USD
Production
Active
End-of-life
Predecessor
—
GeForce 20
Successor
—
GeForce 40