Steam Deck GPU and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh - video card comparison

Steam Deck GPU

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Van Gogh

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

February 2022

July 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1600 MHz

1492 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

51.20

95.49

Memory type

LPDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

5.5 GB/s

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

88 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x USB Type-C

No outputs

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