NVIDIA A800 PCIe 40 GB vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2022
Jun 2025
Generation
Ampere
Console GPU
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
765 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
12GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
5120bit
128bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
12
Shading Units
6912
1536
TMUs
432
48
ROPs
160
16
Tensor Cores
432
48
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
4 MB
RT Cores
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GA10B
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
7 nm
8 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
826 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
40W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
8.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.8