Playstation 4 GPU vs Switch GPU 20nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 8GB VRAM Playstation 4 GPU and 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 20nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Playstation 4 GPU 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Switch GPU 20nm 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock768MHz
Lower TDP (15W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Playstation 4 GPU
+368%
1843
Switch GPU 20nm
393
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Mar 2017
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
384 MHz
-
Boost Clock
768 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
18
Compute Units
-
1152
Shading Units
256
72
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.29 GPixel/s
57.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.29 GTexel/s
1.843 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
786.4 GFLOPS
1.843 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
393.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
15W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Liverpool
GPU Name
GM20B
CXD90026BG
GPU Variant
ODNX02-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
20 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2 billion
348 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1*
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
5.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
