GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Switch GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Switch GPU
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP104
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
256
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
277.3
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5X
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
11008 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
352.3 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126