AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

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We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +400%

8.192 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

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Steam Deck GPU

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Feb 2022

Pirate Islands

Generation

Console GPU

Desktop

Type

Game console

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM

Memory Type

LPDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

8

4096

Shading Units

512

256

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.20 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.277 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.638 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Van Gogh

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

100-000000405

GCN 3.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.4 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

163 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

15W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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