NV48 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU - video card comparison

NV48

Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV48

RDNA 2 Sephiroth

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

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November 2023

Boost clock speed

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1900 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

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512

Shared memory

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-

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12_1

OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.0-

Vulkan

N/A

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PureVideo HD

VP1

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