GeForce MX250 and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
GeForce MX250
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N17S-G2
Van Gogh
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2019
February 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1582 MHz
1600 MHz
Core clock speed
1518 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
512
Power consumption (TDP)
10/25 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.91
51.20
Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x USB Type-C
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2