AMD Steam Deck OLED GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Steam Deck OLED GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck OLED GPU and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Steam Deck OLED GPU 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1777MHz vs 1600MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Steam Deck OLED GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +677%

12.74 TFLOPS

Steam Deck OLED GPU

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Nov 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Console GPU

Generation

GeForce 30

Game console

Type

Desktop

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Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

LPDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

8

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

51.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

3.277 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.638 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

102.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sephiroth

GPU Name

GA106

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GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

131 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

15W

TDP

170W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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