NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Jun 2016
Generation
Console GPU
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1266 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
—
Shading Units
1536
2304
TMUs
48
144
ROPs
16
32
Tensor Cores
48
—
RT Cores
12
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
—
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
Ellesmere
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 4.0
Foundry
Samsung
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
8 nm
14 nm
Transistors
Unknown
5.7 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
232 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Board Design
TDP
40W
150W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.8
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.