GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Steam Deck GPU

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N18E-G3-A1 MAX-Q TU104

Van Gogh

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2019

February 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1095-1230 MHz

1600 MHz

Core clock speed

735-990 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2944

512

Power consumption (TDP)

80-90 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

201.5

51.20

Memory type

GDDR6

LPDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

384.0 GB/s

88 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x USB Type-C

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready