
Tegra 3 and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Tegra 3
Switch GPU
Architecture
VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Tegra 3
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2011
March 2017
Interface
IGP
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
520 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
416 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
10 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
256
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.160
12.29
Memory type
System Shared
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
4 GB
Memory bus width
System Shared
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
ES 2.0
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126