Radeon HD 7970 X2 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

New Zealand

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2012

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2x 3,789 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

256

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126