NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Jan 2013
Generation
Console GPU
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
1536
1792
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
16
32
Tensor Cores
48
-
RT Cores
12
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Board Design
TDP
40W
200W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1