NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 900M
Console GPU
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
12
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA10B
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
40W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.8