Radeon RX 5900 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5900

Switch GPU

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Navi 21

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1635 MHz

768 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

21,000 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

256

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

418.6

12.29

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126