Radeon X1800 XL and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon X1800 XL

Switch GPU

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

R520

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2005

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

Core clock speed

500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

321 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

Power consumption (TDP)

70 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

8.000

12.29

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126