AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Jun 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
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Shading Units
1024
1536
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 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
29.60 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GA10B
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
40W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.