Product Compare
NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2025 | Apr 2021 |
| Generation | Console GPU | Tesla Ampere |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 561 MHz | 930 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1400 MHz | 1440 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 800 MHz | 1215 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 12GB | 24GB |
| Memory Type | LPDDR5X | HBM2e |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 3072bit |
| Bandwidth | 102.4GB/s | 933.1GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 12 | 56 |
| Shading Units | 1536 | 3584 |
| TMUs | 48 | 224 |
| ROPs | 16 | 96 |
| Tensor Cores | 48 | 224 |
| RT Cores | 12 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 192 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 4 MB | 24 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 22.40 GPixel/s | 138.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 67.20 GTexel/s | 322.6 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 8.602 TFLOPS | 10.32 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 4.301 TFLOPS | 10.32 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 2.150 TFLOPS | 5.161 TFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA10B | GA100 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | Unknown | 54.2 billion |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 826 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 40W | 165W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Power Connectors | 8-pin EPS | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.0 |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | N/A |