AMD Steam Deck GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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AMD Steam Deck GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck GPU and a Mobile platform GPU: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 111% (1600MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +24%

2.038 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

Console GPU

Generation

GeForce 600M

Game console

Type

Mobile

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Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

LPDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1344

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

51.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

3.277 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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1.638 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

102.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Van Gogh

GPU Name

GK104

100-000000405

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

163 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

15W

TDP

100W

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Suggested PSU

-

1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

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CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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