AMD Steam Deck OLED GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Steam Deck OLED GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck OLED GPU and a Desktop platform GPU: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1600MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Steam Deck OLED GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +139%

3.92 TFLOPS

Steam Deck OLED GPU

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Nov 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Console GPU

Generation

GeForce 900

Game console

Type

Desktop

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Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

LPDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

51.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

3.277 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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1.638 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

102.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sephiroth

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

131 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

15W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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