Switch GPU 16nm vs Steam Deck GPU
We compared two Game console GPUs: 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 16nm and 16GB VRAM Steam Deck GPU to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 108% (1600MHz vs 768MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Switch GPU 16nm
393
Steam Deck GPU
+316%
1638
Graphics Card
Aug 2019
Release Date
Feb 2022
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
Clock Speeds
384 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
768 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
DDR4
Memory Type
LPDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
256
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
RT Cores
8
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
-
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
12.29 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
12.29 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.20 GTexel/s
786.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
3.277 TFLOPS
393.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.638 TFLOPS
12.29 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
102.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
15W
TDP
15W
No outputs
Outputs
1x USB Type-C
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM20B
GPU Name
Van Gogh
ODNX10-A1
GPU Variant
100-000000405
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2 billion
Transistors
2.4 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
163 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
5.3
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
