AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Jun 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
-
561 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
12
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
GA10B
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
500W
40W
Suggested PSU
900 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6