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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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systems ◴[16 Jan 25 14:19 UTC] No.42725410[source]▶
So I can only guess the reason why they didn't mention how much more powerful NS2 is compared to NS1, is because it is not that much more powerful?

I would guess only 30 to 50% more powerful

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richrichardsson ◴[16 Jan 25 14:23 UTC] No.42725472[source]▶
If you believe the leakers [1]:

    Full specs:
    
    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

    Handheld Mode:
    
    CPU: 998.4 MHz
    GPU: 561 MHz (~1.72 TFLOPS)
    Memory Frequency: 4266 MHz
    Memory Bandwidth: 68.256 GB/s

    Docked Mode:
    
    CPU: 1100.8 MHz
    GPU: 1007.25 MHz (~3.09 TFLOPS)
    Memory Frequency: 6400 MHz
    Memory Bandwidth: 102.4 GB/s
Switch 2 in comparison with the original Nintendo Switch:

    Category    Nintendo Switch 2    Nintendo Switch
    CUDA Cores  1536                 256
    Bus Width   128-bit              64-bit
    Memory Size 12 GB                4 GB
    Memory Type LPDDR5X              LPDDR4
    SM Count    12                   2
    Bandwidth   120 GB/s             25.6GB/s
    Dimensions  206 x 115 x 14       173 x 102 x 13.9
    (LWD mm)
[1] https://thegamepost.com/nintendo-switch-2-full-specs-appears...
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eloisant ◴[16 Jan 25 14:25 UTC] No.42725500[source]▶
How would that compare to other consoles, like the PS4/PS4 Pro?
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1. rjzzleep ◴[17 Jan 25 03:34 UTC] No.42733819{3}[source]▶
The biggest problem is the memory bandwidth. PS4 memory bandwidth is 176 GB/s. These specs are quite bad, It's supposed to be Ampere based, so RTX 30 series. It was released in Sep 2020. That's over 4 years ago. Part of the problem with NVIDIA is that they have been milking their architectures.

For comparison, the Steamdeck was released in Feb 2022, and RDNA2 was released in Nov 2020. So the architecture gap was 1.5 years for Steamdeck, but 4.5 years for the Switch 2.

I guess there might be a chance that they enable DLSS4 for this device, but it's still sad to watch this unfold.