Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2013 | Jun 2025 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | Console GPU |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1000 MHz | 561 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1050 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1400 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | LPDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 179.2GB/s | 102.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 80 | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 4 MB |
| SM Count | 12 | |
| Tensor Cores | 48 | |
| RT Cores | 12 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 33.60 GPixel/s | 22.40 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 84.00 GTexel/s | 67.20 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.688 TFLOPS | 4.301 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 168.0 GFLOPS | 2.150 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 8.602 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Curacao | GA10B |
| GPU Variant | Curacao XT(215-0848004) | |
| 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 | 180W | 40W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
| 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 | 8.6 | |