GeForce 930M and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 930M

Steam Deck GPU

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GM-B/S, N16S-LP

Van Gogh

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

February 2022

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

941 MHz

1600 MHz

Core clock speed

928 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

722.7 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

-

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

512

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

22.58

51.20

Memory type

DDR3

LPDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

88 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x USB Type-C

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-