NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs AMD Radeon E8950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Sep 2015
Generation
Console GPU
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
—
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
—
Shading Units
1536
2048
TMUs
48
128
ROPs
16
32
Tensor Cores
48
—
RT Cores
12
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
256.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
Amethyst
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 3.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
5 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
366 mm²
GPU Variant
—
E8950
Board Design
TDP
40W
95W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
—
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.8
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.