GeForce RTX 3060 and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Steam Deck GPU

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Van Gogh

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

February 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1600 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

512

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

51.20

Memory type

GDDR6

LPDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

88 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2