First Look at Nintendo Switch 2

Evilms

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The comparable hardware should be with RTX 3050 Mobile, no? Switch Pro should be a down-clocked one.

RTX 3050 Mobile is too powerful to be compared with the alleged Tegra 239 chip that will power the Switch 2.
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voke

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Wii U was honestly more exciting hardware than this.

I'm just ready to see what games they have cooking this gen.....
 

AllBizness

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I’m not sure if you are understanding why you need more bandwidth (how fast a RAM is makes no difference… 100GB/s using 5000Mhz or 10000Mhz RAM doesn’t make any difference… both delivery the same… bus x speed = bandwidth).

PS4 / PS4 Pro / PS5 / PS5 Pro works with resolutions way higher than Switch… so they do indeed needs more RAM.

102GB/s for Switch Pro is overkill.
It won’t run any game at 1080p… it will run at 720p max and DLSS will do the rest.

Why you will add more bandwidth in a machine that won’t need it?
You could never have enough bandwidth, there is no such thing as too much bandwidth. Switch 2 has lower bandwidth and slower speed then base PS4. That 12gb or RAM means nothing.
 

Systemshock2023

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Switch got ports of Witcher and Kingdom Come Deliverance. Switch 2 will mop up on third party software, especially 3rd Japanese software.

Yeah and the GBA got ports of street fighter alpha 3 I believe...

C'mon the switch can barely play those games, they might as well not exist. It will receive japanese games because those are tailor made for Nintendo hardware bar some exceptions like final fantasy.

But the switch has to run games all the way through 2033. If it's barely at PS4 hardware level things will get complicated down the line.
 

ToTTenTranz

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RTX 3050 Mobile is too powerful to be compared with the alleged Tegra 239 chip that will power the Switch 2.
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I honestly doubt that amount of shader processors. If it has half the bandwidth of T234 then it probably has a GPU about half as big.
I don't even remember where they took the 1536 number from.

We're probably looking at half of a GA107, which would be:

1280 shader processors
40 TMUs
16 ROPs
40 Tensor Units
16 Raytracing Units
1MB L2 cache


The closest graphics card to this should be a super underclocked Nvidia A2 but good luck finding games benchmarks of that, considering it's a headless card.
 

Boswollox

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Yeah and the GBA got ports of street fighter alpha 3 I believe...

C'mon the switch can barely play those games, they might as well not exist. It will receive japanese games because those are tailor made for Nintendo hardware bar some exceptions like final fantasy.

But the switch has to run games all the way through 2033. If it's barely at PS4 hardware level things will get complicated down the line.
If they can barely play the games but 3rd parties want them on the console, it's a good thing for Nintendo.

150 million hardware sales is hard to turn down.
 

BroodCorp

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I hope Resident Evil 4 remake lands on it. That’s a nice early baseline for me. Even if it’s not in the running to be the best looking version.