Steam Deck (OLED) vs PlayStation 5
Deck: The mature handheld. We don't re-rank what ProtonDB and SteamDeckHQ already own — Deck appears here as a comparison baseline and a data source.
PS5: The price-per-frame benchmark. Closed console, optimized first-party engines, exclusives — and roughly half the Machine's price.
Deck
at a glance
PS5
Handheld
GPU power
PS5-class ▲
Low-power
CPU power
8-core class ▲
16 GB
Graphics mem
16 GB
16 GB
System mem
16 GB
$549
Price
$499 ▲
15 W
Power draw
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Bars are relative — longer is stronger. For price & power draw, lower is better; power draw is neutral (handhelds trade power for battery).
- $549
- Price
- $499
- AMD RDNA 2, 8 CU (~1.6 TFLOPs)
- GPU
- AMD RDNA 2, 36 CU (~10.3 TFLOPs)
- —
- GPU equivalent
- —
- AMD Zen 2, 4 cores / 8 threads
- CPU
- AMD Zen 2, 8 cores
- shared (16 GB unified)
- VRAM
- shared (16 GB GDDR6)
- 16 GB LPDDR5
- Memory
- 16 GB GDDR6
- 800p handheld (1280×800)
- Realistic target
- 4K dynamic / 60 fps modes
- SteamOS
- Platform
- PS5
The mature handheld. We don't re-rank what ProtonDB and SteamDeckHQ already own — Deck appears here as a comparison baseline and a data source.
The price-per-frame benchmark. Closed console, optimized first-party engines, exclusives — and roughly half the Machine's price.
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