NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q AMD Steam Deck GPU

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck GPU to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1600MHz vs 1468MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +358%

7.516 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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Steam Deck GPU

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Console GPU

Mobile

Type

Game console

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

LPDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.20 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.277 TFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.638 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Van Gogh

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

100-000000405

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

163 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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