Atari VCS 800 GPU vs Switch GPU 16nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 8GB VRAM Atari VCS 800 GPU and 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 16nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Atari VCS 800 GPU Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1201MHz vs 768MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Switch GPU 16nm Advantages
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Atari VCS 800 GPU
+17%
461
Switch GPU 16nm
393
Graphics Card
Dec 2020
Release Date
Aug 2019
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
384 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
768 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR4
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
192
Shading Units
256
12
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
Theoretical Performance
4.804 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.29 GPixel/s
14.41 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.29 GTexel/s
922.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
786.4 GFLOPS
461.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
393.2 GFLOPS
28.82 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
15W
TDP
15W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Banded Kestrel
GPU Name
GM20B
-
GPU Variant
ODNX10-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.94 billion
Transistors
2 billion
210 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
5.3
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
