AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jun 2025
Generation
Northern Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
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561 MHz
Boost Clock
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1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
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Shading Units
960
1536
TMUs
48
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
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12
Tensor Cores
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48
RT Cores
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12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.602 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
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2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GA10B
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
255 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
127W
40W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.