NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Steam Deck GPU

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 960 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1600MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +50%

2.46 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Steam Deck GPU

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Console GPU

Desktop

Type

Game console

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.277 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.638 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Van Gogh

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

100-000000405

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

163 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

15W

200 W

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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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