NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Dec 2017
Generation
Console GPU
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
5GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
160bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
160.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
10
Shading Units
1536
1280
TMUs
48
80
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
48
—
RT Cores
12
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
1280 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
68.36 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
GP106
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
Unknown
4.4 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
200 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GP106-350-K3-A1
Board Design
TDP
40W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
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
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
Blender
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332
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.