GeForce RTX 3090 and Switch GPU - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3090
Switch GPU
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Ampere GA102
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2020
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1700 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10496
256
Power consumption (TDP)
350 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
556.0
12.29
Memory type
GDDR6X
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
19500 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
936.2 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
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
Vulkan
1.2
1.1.126