
Radeon HD 4860 and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4860
Switch GPU
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
RV790
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
768 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
896.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
959 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
256
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
22.40
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3000 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 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
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126