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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 4 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nerdjon ◴[16 Jan 25 14:11 UTC] No.42725322[source]▶
Happy to see that Nintendo is treating the switch more like how they traditionally handled their mobile platforms instead of their consoles.

Iterating instead of throwing out everything with each new version. There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas. But a stable Nintendo just being able to continue putting out great games has its advantages.

I am curious about the specs, but honestly don't care much. The only real issue the Switch had was being able to keep up with some of the games put on it with FPS but it still had beautiful games (like Tears of the Kingdom). So as long as it is actually a decent spec bump I am happy and have zero care to compare it to the other consoles (but I am sure people are going too and scream that it is "underpowered").

The biggest thing I am curious about, will it be OLED since that will be disappointing to go back to non OLED from the OLED Switch. And Price.

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1. wslh ◴[16 Jan 25 15:30 UTC] No.42726594[source]▶
> I am curious about the specs, but honestly don't care much.

The specs seems to be leaked here <https://thegamepost.com/nintendo-switch-2-full-specs-appears...>

TL;DR

- CPU: Arm Cortex-A78C 8 cores Unknown L1/L2/L3 cache sizes

- GPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere 1 Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC) 12 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) 1534 CUDA cores 6 Texture Processing Clusters (TPC) 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores 2 RTX ray-tracing cores

- RAM: 12 GB LPDDR5

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2. whynotminot ◴[16 Jan 25 17:00 UTC] No.42727825[source]▶
Only 2 ray-tracing cores makes you wonder why they’d even bother.

Any actual game devs wanna chime in on whether that’s enough to actually do any ray tracing?

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3. gjsman-1000 ◴[16 Jan 25 17:47 UTC] No.42728423[source]▶
The leaks are a little inconsistent on this one.

On one hand, the base architecture is Ampere, but it's been repeatedly rumored that there are various backports from Lovelace. It's a weird mixture of the two, alone with some unique parts never seen elsewhere (a file decompression engine that accelerates LZMA, according to kernel commits).

It's hard to say then how powerful these raytracing cores are, or how many are even necessary for simple but beautiful effects. It's also worth remembering that the Switch bakes the graphics drivers into the game itself, uses data structures and shaders more native to the GPU without compilation, and has a custom low level graphics API called NVN (and NVN2), so performance is not necessarily linear compared to a PC.

4. enragedcacti ◴[16 Jan 25 18:45 UTC] No.42729199[source]▶
That spec seems fishy given both Ampere and Ada both have 1 RT core in each SM. 12 RT cores would make much more sense. The 1534 Cuda cores is also weird since 128x12 would be 1536. ALSO the leak says "Nvidia T239 Ampere (RTX 20 Series)" but Ampere debuted in the RTX 30 Series.