Radeon Instinct MI100 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI100

Switch GPU

Architecture

CDNA 1.0 (2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Arcturus

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2020

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1502 MHz

768 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

50,000 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7680

256

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

721.0

12.29

Memory type

HBM2

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,229 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

N/A

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126