3D Rage II and Switch GPU - video card comparison

3D Rage II

Switch GPU

Architecture

Mach (1992−1997)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Mach64 GT-B

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 1996

March 2017

Interface

PCI

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

60 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

500 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

5 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

256

Power consumption (TDP)

-

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.06

12.29

Memory type

SDR

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

83 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

664.0 MB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x VGA

No outputs

DirectX

5.0

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126