Radeon R9 290X2 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290X2

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

256

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

176.0

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

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