Radeon HD 5950 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5950

Switch GPU

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Hemlock

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

256

Power consumption (TDP)

302 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.20

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4 GB/s

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126