RedGamingTech jumped on the Nintendo Switch 2 leak train that’s been gaining momentum lately. While discussing details that have already been reported about the highly anticipated hybrid console, such as DLSS support, the YouTuber also shared some new information that he apparently obtained through a combination of “I heard” and “another source.” also provided. So we need quite a bit of salt here. Especially given how surprising this Switch 2 spec leak is in terms of CPU and GPU components, host Paul Ecleston called the potential specs “unreliable.” ” he defends. ”. He also mentioned that some developers have signed NDAs with Nintendo, suggesting that things are really starting to happen in the Switch successor space.
Eccleston reasonably opines that there would have been a number of hardware revisions throughout the Switch 2’s development process, so at some point a Tegra T239 “Drake” processor was involved in the mix. It is legitimate to report that there is a possibility. This chip is still a significant upgrade over the OG Switch’s Tegra X1 SoC (system-on-chip), but one could argue that its specs are starting to become outdated. Its chip family, his Tegra Orin, was released in his 2018. The Nintendo Switch 2 release date is in late 2024, leaving a six-year gap between the console and its SoC architecture. The OG Switch was released in 2017, but its X1 processor was announced by Nvidia in 2015. That’s an acceptable two year difference (approximately 22 months).
of video It goes on to say that Nvidia may have offered Nintendo an update to its SoC configuration, which, if true, would lend further credence to rumors that the Switch 2 could match the gaming performance of the PS5 and Xbox Series S. become. Switch 2 CPU components are MediaTek-based and feature 2 Cortex-A4 cores, 2 Cortex-A720 cores, and 4 Cortex-A520 cores, making it a faster and more efficient chip than the T239 SKU .
The Drake chip was thought to have an ARM Cortex-A78AE core, but ARM Claim The new Cortex-A720 core can deliver 10% higher performance than Cortex-A78. This doesn’t even take into account the power of the two Cortex-A4 cores leading the CPU part. As for the Cortex-A4, it utilizes a much more efficient architecture than the A78 (ARMv9.2 vs. ARMv8.2), increasing the maximum in-flight instructions from 160 in the older model to 2×384 in the new series. This potential CPU component would be a significant upgrade over what was previously rumored for the Nintendo Switch successor.
If that’s not enough, the Nintendo Switch 2 GPU components are speculated to feature 12 to 16 streaming multiprocessors (SMs), powered by the Ada Lovelace microarchitecture. So a chip like the Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin 32GB has a similar number of SMs (14) but must rely on the older Ampere architecture. Once again, if the T239 Drake is based on the Ada Lovelace, this mysterious Switch 2 processor will bring more power, higher efficiency, DLSS 3 frame generation, and 4th generation Tensor Cores to the console. So Ampere’s know-how looks outdated here. microarchitecture.
Last but not least, there is talk that the Nintendo Switch 2 and Tegra X1 will have 12 to 16 GB of RAM for backwards compatibility. What RedGamingTech has provided here is a dizzying mix of reckless optimism and a level of skepticism that lowers expectations but maintains hope.
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