NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

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NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU

NVIDIA 2025-06

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