Steam Deck GPU and GeForce RTX 3050 OEM - video card comparison

Steam Deck GPU

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Van Gogh

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2022

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1600 MHz

1755 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,400 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

51.20

140.4

Memory type

LPDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5.5 GB/s

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

88 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x USB Type-C

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3