GeForce GTX 960M and Switch GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960M
Switch GPU
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
GM20B
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-