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 3060 12 GB GA104
CORE STATE
GA104
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1777 MHz
TDP
170 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
Steam Deck GPU
RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
3,584
+600.0%
Shaders
512
3,584
+600.0%
TMUs
32
112
+250.0%
ROPs
16
64
+300.0%
Compute Units
8
—
SM Count
—
28
Clocks
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
11 Gbps effective
1875 MHz
15 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
16 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
16,384
12,288
-25.0%
Memory Type
LPDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
3 MB
L0 Cache
32 KB per WGP
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.20 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.638 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
102.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
3.277 TFLOPS (2:1)
12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
8
28
+250.0%
Tensor Cores
—
112
Power
TDP
15 W
170 W
TDP (W)
15
170
+1033.3%
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 12-pin
Architecture
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Van Gogh
GA104
Generation
Console GPU
(Valve)
GeForce 30
Process Size
7 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2,400 million
17,400 million
Die Size
163 mm²
392 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
14.7M / mm²
44.4M / 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 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
329 USD
Production
Active
End-of-life
Predecessor
—
GeForce 20
Successor
—
GeForce 40