Switch GPU vs ATI Radeon 3000 IGP

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameRS780GM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2009 (15 years ago)17 March 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40256
Core clock speed350 MHz384 MHz
Boost clock speedno data768 MHz
Number of transistors180 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.40012.29
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3932 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedDDR4
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsMotherboard DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.01.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 20 nm

Switch GPU has a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 3000 IGP and Switch GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 3000 IGP is a desktop card while Switch GPU is a notebook one.


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