Radeon R9 290X and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Van Gogh
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
February 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1600 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
512
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
51.20
Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-