Radeon HD 2950 XTX and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Switch GPU

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

RV670

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

Core clock speed

777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

256

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.43

12.29

Memory type

GDDR4

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.3 GB/s

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72.06 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.16.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126