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Nintendo Switch Teardown Pictures Leaked

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The inevitable has happened, albeit earlier than expected; there are teardown pictures of the Switch!

A Chinese forum has some interesting information, involving Nintendo's latest console. Another person has gotten their hands on an early Switch, and they've taken the system apart, showcasing what's under the hood of the Nintendo Switch. There's not too much information on it yet, as it's all in Chinese, but here's what's been uncovered right now:

  • Date code is "1629" in addition to the A2 stepping.

  • This means 2016 Week 29 which is around July 2016.

  • ODNX02-A2 is another code printed.
    • This seems to confirm that this IS a custom chip for Nintendo. Considering the Switch was codenamed Nintendo NX during its development.
  • We also see PANN39.C0P?? as the other code above ODNX02-A2.
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Notably, the Switch shares a very, very similar SoC with the 2017 edition of the Nvidia Shield TV. You can see the photo of that comparison here. More images are below.

Pictures of the a seemingly legit complete teardown of the Nintendo Switch has been leaked on a Chinese forum today. They are all below, for your visual pleasure:

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Looks like more than one lucky buyer got his/her order before the scheduled release date! :)

Special thanks to @Mr Objection for pointing this out to us! :yay:

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chartube12 said:
Isn't the 1060 what the S models actually ra


So maybe the info from the japan guys is the dev unit/kit Nintendo originally gave out and i would assume, botw was created with, before capcom spoke up. I willing to bet besides more ram, developers probably requested a slightly more power dev kit overall plus a better battery
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According to Foxconn, the new batch of the much more powerful dev kits (both the chip itself and a dgpu 1060) are produced at the same time as the switch itself, which only shipped after November.

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But ps3 has a very difficult arquitecture, that is why they had problems. Look at bayonetta 1 for ps3.
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Xbox 360 wasn't even that popular in Japan.
 
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Yil said:
According to Foxconn, the new batch of the much more powerful dev kits (both the chip itself and a dgpu 1060) are produced at the same time as the switch itself, which only shipped after November.

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Xbox 360 wasn't even that popular in Japan.
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No it wasn't but the performance of almost all third party titles is better in the 360 (at least in the earliesrt. The ps3 is very powerful, but hard to program for.
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True, the cell processor never had it's full power used by anyone.
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The last of us. It looks so good for being a ps3 game.
 
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Yil said:
According to Foxconn, the new batch of the much more powerful dev kits (both the chip itself and a dgpu 1060) are produced at the same time as the switch itself, which only shipped after November.
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So it is safe to assume botw was definitely created with the old finale dev kit then. This makes me believe mario's odyssey was internally delayed n not launched with the switch, to allow the team designing it to switch over to the new finale dev kit n make changes. Possibly improvements too.
 
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Here's part 2
Rough battery life estimations based on system logs:
- 4 hours of 1080p playback
- 2 hours of 3D games
The firmware might have issues as some system services are still draining battery on idle

Performance while undocked is on par with PS Vita because they drop frames in exact same spots in an unnamed title
#Take this with a grain of salt, both consoles are 5 years apart

The devkit has a temperature sensor that is accessible when docked, the console remains cool to touch even under load.

The SDK has a feature to warn the user to wait for 120 seconds before undocking in order to allow the console to cool down, OP was not able to trigger the feature no matter how warm his console was.
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Here's part 2
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On par with a PSVita undocked.... hmm, sounds stinky to me!. I'm sure the PSVita could run Zelda Breath of Wild no problem :wacko:

Edit: are you sure they haven't took these stats from a PSVita? :lol:

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This part was good from page 5, I liked this, this was even better!:

"Graphics performance while docked is around 50-70% that of PS4, if undocked it's on par with a PS Vita."
 
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On par with a PSVita undocked.... hmm, sounds stinky to me!. I'm sure the PSVita could run Zelda Breath of Wild no problem :wacko:

Edit: are you sure they haven't took these stats from a PSVita? :lol:

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This part was good from page 5, I liked this, this was even better!:

"Graphics performance while docked is around 50-70% that of PS4, if undocked it's on par with a PS Vita."
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They are saying 540p with no Advanced rendering are the same as 1080p super sampled to 720p. Pretty much the thing I expect from some Japanese dev.
 
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Reecey said:
On par with a PSVita undocked.... hmm, sounds stinky to me!. I'm sure the PSVita could run Zelda Breath of Wild no problem :wacko:

Edit: are you sure they haven't took these stats from a PSVita? :lol:

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This part was good from page 5, I liked this, this was even better!:

"Graphics performance while docked is around 50-70% that of PS4, if undocked it's on par with a PS Vita."
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I think the devs are talking about the switch undocked lowering it's clock speed to the clock speed of the vita. Clock speed isn't everything however. Newer cpu and gpu can do more processing of instructions even if thier clock speeds match older ones. It's like comparing blood oranges and tangerines or lemons and limes
 
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The switch undocked being on par with the vita makes no sense, the vita wouldn't run BOTW like that in a milion of years lol

Just doing the math, the wiiU (which is powerfull than the Vita) struggles runing the game at +25fps (with dips to 15), whereas the switch has a constant/Better framerate and better draw distance in both undocked and docked mode.
 
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chartube12 said:
I think the devs are talking about the switch undocked lowering it's clock speed to the clock speed of the vita. Clock speed isn't everything however. Newer cpu and gpu can do more processing of instructions even if thier clock speeds match older ones. It's like comparing blood oranges and tangerines or lemons and limes
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Nah, they straight up say it's identical to psv, or rather original iPhone is on par with say 7s.
 
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If the Switch gpu has 512 Cuda cores it is basically a Gtx 945m (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-945M.153641.0.html)

If it has 384 a Gtx 930mx (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-930MX.156035.0.html)

And If it has 256 a Gtx 920mx (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-920MX.156034.0.html)


With the performance of a Gtx 945m the switch would be great, with the performance of the gtx 930mx it would be very good, and with the performance of a gtx 920mx it would be good enough for gaming.


I really want to know the true hardware specs for the switch.
 
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Mr Objection said:
If the Switch gpu has 512 Cuda cores it is basically a Gtx 945m (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-945M.153641.0.html)

If it has 384 a Gtx 930mx (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-930MX.156035.0.html)

And If it has 256 a Gtx 920mx (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-920MX.156034.0.html)


With the performance of a Gtx 945m the switch would be great, with the performance of the gtx 930mx it would be very good, and with the performance of a gtx 920mx it would be good enough for gaming.


I really want to know the true hardware specs for the switch.
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I would rank it at least above 940mx.
 
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All I want to know is how much it (Switch) compares to my GT 730 lol. This thread got real interesting real fast.
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it depends, if you have the GT 730 with 1gb DDR3 128-bit (the version with less cuda cores), then the switch will be more powerful (assuming it is using the same tegra x1 as the one in the shield tv).
 
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Mr Objection said:
it depends, if you have the GT 730 with 1gb DDR3 128-bit (the version with less cuda cores), then the switch will be more powerful (assuming it is using the same tegra x1 as the one in the shield tv).
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My GT 730 seems to be the anomaly. I can't seem to find detailed specs for mine. It has 2GB GDDR5 RAM. geforce.com only gives specs for the 128-bit, 64-bit and 1GB GDDR5 model. I can only assume that my version is in extension of the 1GB GDDR5 model which has 384 CUDA cores.

EDIT: Just used CUDA-Z. 384 cores confirmed :)
 
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