Steam Deck vs. Switch 2 — which gaming handheld is more powerful?

The Switch 2 uses an Nvidia Ampere GPU delivering ~1.71 TFLOPS handheld and up to 3.7 TFLOPS docked, supporting 4K/60 fps titles like Metroid Prime 4. Its AMD Zen 2 CPU tops 3.5 GHz, while its AMD RDNA 2 GPU provides ~1.6 TFLOPS, restricting games such as Elden Ring to 720p/30 fps. The Switch 2 has 12 GB unified RAM; the Steam Deck has 16 GB.