Radeon RX Vega M vs Switch GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated315
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data78.76
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGM20BVega
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 March 2017 (7 years ago)1 February 2018 (6 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 cores256512
Core clock speed384 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed768 MHz1190 MHz
Number of transistors2,000 million4,500 million
Manufacturing process technology20 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate12.2938.08
Floating-point processing power0.3932 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs1632

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
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR4System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data

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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12.0
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2017 1 February 2018
Chip lithography 20 nm 14 nm

RX Vega M has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Switch GPU is a notebook card while Radeon RX Vega M is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Switch GPU
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