The Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time. It’s a huge upgrade over the OG Switch but just how fast is it compared to other consoles?
Comparison chart below.
Gaming Console GPU GFLOPS Comparison Table
| System | GFlops | GPU Name |
| Playstation 5 Pro | 16700 | Oberon Plus |
| Xbox Series X | 12000 | Scarlett |
| Playstation 5 | 9200 | Unknown |
| Xbox One X | 6000 | Scorpio |
| Playstation 4 Pro | 4200 | Neo |
| Xbox Series S | 4000 | Lockhart |
| Nintendo Switch 2 (Docked) | 3072 | |
| PlayStation 4 | 1843 | Liverpool |
| Nintendo Switch 2 | 1720 | |
| Valve Steam Deck | 1600 | RDNA 2 |
| Xbox One S | 1400 | Durango 2 |
| Xbox One | 1310 | Durango |
| Nintendo Switch 2? | ? | ? |
| Nintendo Switch (OG & OLED) (Docked) | 500 | GM20B |
| Nintendo Switch (OG, Lite & OLED) | 393.2 | GM20B |
| Xbox 360 | 240 | Xenos |
| PlayStation 3 | 230.4 | Reality Synthesizer |
| Nintendo Wii U | 176 | Hollywood |
| Xbox | 20 | NV2A” ASIC. |
| Nintendo Wii | 12 | Hollywood |
| Nintendo Gamecube | 9.4 | Flipper |
| PlayStation 2 | 6.2 | Graphics Synthesizer |
| Nintendo 3DS | 4.8 | PICA200 |
| Dreamcast | 1.4 | PowerVR CLX2 |
| Nintendo DS | 0.6 | |
| Nintendo 64 | 0.1 | Reality Coprocessor |
What are FLOPS?
FLOPS is an acronym for floating point operations per second. It is used as a general measure of performance of a processing unit.
What’s a floating point operation?
Floating point operations are required when dealing with software that uses a huge range of numbers. Software stores exponentially large or small numbers into a predictable encoded 64 bit size.
Converting these 64-bit instructions into raw numbers takes processing power. Processors can be measured in FLOPS, which refers to how fast they can turn bit instructions into numbers.
In gaming, floating point numbers are used to determine polygons and shapes. The more FLOPS a GPU can process, the faster it will be able to render a 3D scene. FLOPS
FLOPS is only one aspect of determining console power, it won’t tell you what is the best gaming console, but it helps give you an idea of what the comparative raw processing speed of a system.
FLOPS Conversions
You might see FLOPS, GFLOPS and TFLOPS terms floating around, these are all the same measurement, just different magnitudes. A simple reference would be to compare bytes to megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.
1000 FLOPS = 1 MFLOPS
1000 MFLOPS = 1 GFLOPS
1000 GFLOPS = 1 TFLOPS
What do the FLOPS mean for gaming?
The PS5 Pro is showing a bit better resolution and sharpness with better framerates. Whether that extra sharpness is worth it for you really depends on how you perceive visual clarity. For most, it seems like it’s hard to notice in the middle of a game.
While the numbers are nice to have as a rough comparison of compute power, the real world difference will be less obvious, the Xbox Series X will likely have slightly better resolution or framerates in cross-platform games, but FLOPS should not be the deciding factor in which console you choose.
Exclusives, other features like SSD speeds, backward compatibility, crossplay and mouse and keyboard should be bigger factors in your decision.
Comparing console generations gives you an approximate calculation for how much power the new consoles have.
