In China, some leakers have apparently had the chance to get their hands on copies or components of the Nintendo Switch 2. This is not unusual, because we often learn details about other PC components in advance. In this case, it is probably boards that are defective and should have been disposed of.
On the board you can also see the mentioned LPDDR5RAM with a total of two 6 GB from SK Hynix. The RAM is connected via a 128-bit interface with 8,533 MT/s. However, it is expected that the Nintendo Switch 2 will not use the full speed here. Otherwise, the Nvidia chip apparently uses eight cores from the ARM Cortex-A78C series, 4 MB L2 cache and 1,536 CUDA cores for the GPU. The Ampere architecture serves as the basis - this was used for graphics cards of the GeForce RTX 30 series, so it is already two generations ago.
The die of the SoC comes to a total of 207 mm2, which is about twice as large as the Tegra X1 of the previous model. According to initial estimates, the GPU of the Nintendo Switch 2 could achieve about the performance of a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in docked mode and correspond to a GeForce GTX 750 Ti in handheld mode. In the end, that would be about seven to seven and a half times faster than the Tegra X1. At the end of the day, the Nintendo Switch 2 is not a performance monster and is far behind the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, for example – but this was also the case with the predecessor model in direct comparison with PS4 and Xbox One. Nintendo's console can also serve as a handheld for this. Thanks to DLSS, however, the Switch 2 can output a 4K video signal and also supports HDR.
On the board you can also see the mentioned LPDDR5RAM with a total of two 6 GB from SK Hynix. The RAM is connected via a 128-bit interface with 8,533 MT/s. However, it is expected that the Nintendo Switch 2 will not use the full speed here. Otherwise, the Nvidia chip apparently uses eight cores from the ARM Cortex-A78C series, 4 MB L2 cache and 1,536 CUDA cores for the GPU. The Ampere architecture serves as the basis - this was used for graphics cards of the GeForce RTX 30 series, so it is already two generations ago.
The die of the SoC comes to a total of 207 mm2, which is about twice as large as the Tegra X1 of the previous model. According to initial estimates, the GPU of the Nintendo Switch 2 could achieve about the performance of a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in docked mode and correspond to a GeForce GTX 750 Ti in handheld mode. In the end, that would be about seven to seven and a half times faster than the Tegra X1. At the end of the day, the Nintendo Switch 2 is not a performance monster and is far behind the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, for example – but this was also the case with the predecessor model in direct comparison with PS4 and Xbox One. Nintendo's console can also serve as a handheld for this. Thanks to DLSS, however, the Switch 2 can output a 4K video signal and also supports HDR.
