NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Unknown
Generation
Console GPU
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
950 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
288.0GB/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
768 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
—
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
1024 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 XTL(215-0821065)
Board Design
TDP
40W
375W
Outputs
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
—
750 W
Power Connectors
—
3x 8-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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.