Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Jun 2025
Generation
Xe Graphics
Console GPU
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
-
561 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
12GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
4096bit
128bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
6144
1536
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
16
L2 Cache
8 MB
4 MB
SM Count
-
12
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
12
L1 Cache
-
128 KB (per SM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GA10B
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Ampere
Foundry
Intel
Samsung
Process Size
10 nm
8 nm
Transistors
8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
190 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
40W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6