NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Jun 2016
Generation
Console GPU
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
—
Shading Units
1536
1664
TMUs
48
104
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
48
—
RT Cores
12
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
75.39 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
5.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
N16E-GXX-A1
Board Design
TDP
40W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
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
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.