Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2014 | Jun 2025 |
| Generation | GeForce 900M | Console GPU |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| 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) | 8.602 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | GA10B |
| GPU Variant | N16E-GT-A2 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |