GeForce RTX 3070 and Switch GPU 16nm - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070

Switch GPU 16nm

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Ampere GA104

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

August 2019

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5888

256

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

12.29

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.5

5.3

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2

1.1