NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960


NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU is based on the NVIDIA Tegra X1 and has 256 texture shaders and 2 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, which has 1024 shaders and 8 execution units.
NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA Tegra X1 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Tegra X1 GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
Tegra X1 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
2 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
256 Shader 1024
0 Render Output Units 32
0 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU has 2 GB of graphics memory of the type LPDDR4 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 26 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 2 GB
LPDDR4 Memory Type GDDR5
1.600 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
0.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
26 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU clocks in the base with up to 0.300 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 1.127 GHz.

0.300 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
0.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU is --. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

-- TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU has a total of 0 -- fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Radial
-- Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 1 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

1 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
-- DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU supports a maximum resolution of 3840x2160 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 4096x2160 pixels.

3840x2160 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 241 mm long, -- high and -- wide.

-- Length 241 mm
-- Height --
-- Width --
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 0 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell) - Nintendo Switch GPU was released in 0 at a price of --.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was introduced in Q1/2015 at a price of 199 $.

-- Part-no --
0 Release date Q1/2015
-- Launch Price 199 $
20 nm Structure size 28 nm
-- Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
17964

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
20498

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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