Wii U GPU and Polaris 21 - video card comparison

Wii U GPU

Polaris 21

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Latte

Polaris 21

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

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Interface

IGP

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Core clock speed

550 MHz

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Floating-point performance

352.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

880 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

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Texture fill rate

8.800

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Memory type

DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

N/A

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3