Radeon HD 8950 OEM and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

256

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

103.6

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

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