AMD Steam Deck GPU vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2022
May 2013
Generation
Console GPU
Solar System
Type
Game console
Mobile
Bus Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
2GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
8
12
Shading Units
512
768
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
16
RT Cores
8
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
256 KB
L3 Cache
8 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.20 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
3.277 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1.638 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
102.4 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Van Gogh
Saturn
GPU Variant
100-000000405
Saturn XT
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
163 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
15W
100W
Outputs
1x USB Type-C
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.3