AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Jun 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
950 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/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
32.00 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA10B
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
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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
375W
40W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
6x 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