Switch GPU vs Radeon Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking899not rated
Place by popularity10not in top-100
Power efficiency9.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameRenoirGM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data17 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 cores448256
Core clock speedno data384 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz768 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate42.0012.29
Floating-point processing power1.344 TFLOPS0.3932 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2816

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 20 nm

Graphics has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

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

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


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