AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jun 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
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561 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
-
Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
12
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GA10B
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
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Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
438 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
40W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
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