GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980M SLI

Steam Deck GPU

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

-

Van Gogh

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2014

February 2022

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1127 MHz

1600 MHz

Core clock speed

1038 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

512

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

51.20

Memory type

GDDR5

LPDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

88 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

1x USB Type-C

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2

Optimus

+

-