Radeon HD 8950M and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8950M
Switch GPU
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Saturn
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,651 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
256
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.60
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
88 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126