Sandy Bridge GT2 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU - video card comparison

Sandy Bridge GT2

Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

Architecture

Generation 6.0 (2011)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Sandy Bridge GT2

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

32 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

624 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

512

Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12_1

OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

3.1

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Shader Model

4.1

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Vulkan

N/A

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