AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
Jun 2025
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Console GPU
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
1536
TMUs
144
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
SM Count
-
12
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA10B
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
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Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
232 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
40W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6