GeForce GTX 960M and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960M
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Van Gogh
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
February 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
-
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1600 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
51.20
Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x USB Type-C
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
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
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-