Steam Deck GPU and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile - video card comparison

Steam Deck GPU

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Van Gogh

GN21-X2

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

February 2022

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1600 MHz

2370 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

51.20

140.4

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

16000 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

88 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x USB Type-C

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3