GeForce GTX 1080 and Switch GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080
Switch GPU
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
March 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
-
CUDA cores
2560
-
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
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
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
10 GB/s
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-