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