Radeon RX 540 and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Van Gogh
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
February 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1600 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
51.20
Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x USB Type-C
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
FreeSync
+
-