NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm vs AMD Ryzen Z2 GPU
We compared two Game console GPUs: 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 20nm and 16GB VRAM Ryzen Z2 GPU to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 28W)
AMD Ryzen Z2 GPU 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 252% (2700MHz vs 768MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (59.97GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Switch GPU 20nm
0.393 TFLOPS
Ryzen Z2 GPU
+2010%
8.294 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2017
Release Date
Jan 2025
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
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Clock Speeds
384 MHz
Base Clock
800 MHz
768 MHz
Boost Clock
2700 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
937 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
DDR4
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
59.97GB/s
Render Config
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Compute Units
12
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256
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
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RT Cores
12
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
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L2 Cache
8 MB
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L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
12.29 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
12.29 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
129.6 GTexel/s
786.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.59 TFLOPS
393.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.294 TFLOPS
12.29 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
518.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
15W
TDP
28W
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No outputs
Outputs
1x USB Type-C
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM20B
GPU Name
Hawk Point
ODNX02-A2
GPU Variant
100-000001753
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
20 nm
Process Size
4 nm
2 billion
Transistors
25.39 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
178 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
5.3
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
