NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Jan 2022
Generation
Console GPU
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
561 MHz
1552 MHz
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
12
20
Shading Units
1536
2560
TMUs
48
80
ROPs
16
32
Tensor Cores
48
80
RT Cores
12
20
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
56.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.602 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.150 TFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA10B
GA106
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
Unknown
12 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
276 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GA106-150-KA-A1
Board Design
TDP
40W
130W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.