NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Nov 2015
Generation
Console GPU
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
—
Shading Units
1536
1024
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
32
Tensor Cores
48
—
RT Cores
12
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
GM206
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
2.94 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GTX 960 OEM
Board Design
TDP
40W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Power Connectors
—
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.