Switch 2 Hardware Specs

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read from tweaktown:

NVIDIA's semi-custom Tegra239 chip has been discovered inside of Nintendo's new Switch 2 gaming handheld, something that has been long-rumored, but now confirmed inside of the switch 2.

The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by the semi-custom T239 processor from NVIDIA, confirmed by X user @Kurnalsalts, sharing an image of the "T239" SoC inside of the Switch 2.

Switch 2

-1536 CUDA Cores, 48 tensor cores, 12 RT cores Ampere architecture with features backported from Ada
-8x ARM A78C
-File decompression engine
-12 GB LPDDR5X RAM 7500 MT/s
-256 UFS 3.1

Handheld: Right above PS4* before DLSS

Docked: Between PS4 Pro* & Xbox Series S* before DLSS with more modern hardware than the former

RAM: Slower than PS5 & XSX|S in the speed department, but more capacity than XSS. Should have 10.5-11 GB of RAM available to games going by the Switch 1's RAM allotment for its OS.

Storage: UFS 3.1's max speeds should be a hair under XSX|S (2.1 GB/s vs. 2.4 GB/s), still plenty fast even if not maxed out.Lines up with what Digital Foundry & NateDrake heard about decompression techniques & fast load times of the BotW tech demo (respectively for each source).

* = Not only is the Switch 2 ARM-based rather than x86 like the systems compared, it's also Nvidia vs. AMD. There are plenty of factors at play to where it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Plus the native Tensor cores of the Switch 2 will allow for DLSS, letting the system punch above its weight & decrease the size of the gap between it & the XSS. Nintendo could throttle down the SoC to the floor, but I'm not sure it'll be a doomsday scenario since this is a custom chip to begin with.
 
Jensen pops up on Nintendo Official channel :
 
full teardown video:
 
Well at least he was careful with it and put it back together nicely lol
 
Switch 2 cooling is great. Been gaming for more than 5 hours straight 4K output and it's not hot, it's just warm. The dock too, The dock's fan works good cooling the dock.
 
cm2 said:
Switch 2 cooling is great. Been gaming for more than 5 hours straight 4K output and it's not hot, it's just warm. The dock too, The dock's fan works good cooling the dock.
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I've heard that there's still drift...
 
Well the sticks are not using Magnetic Hall like one of the rumors or leaks before. So drift is still possible like any other controllers without one. A third party company said is making a joycon 2 with magnetic hall from one of tweets i read before though.
 
cm2 said:
Well the sticks are not using Magnetic Hall like one of the rumors or leaks before. So drift is still possible like any other controllers without one. A third party company said is making a joycon 2 with magnetic hall from one of tweets i read before though.
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I'll have to get that.
 
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Read a couple of people got their Nintendo switch 2 overheating while docked after long play sessions. They should remove the dock cover, as it's removeable, and it's designed to operate with or without it. without it, it will give the Switch 2 excellent cooling. I don't use the dock cover and My switch 2 runs cool even after running with 4K output for more than 6 hours straight while docked.

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Do you use the Switch 2 while docked with the dock cover on? @Dead2009
 
cm2 said:
Read a couple of people got their Nintendo switch 2 overheating while docked after long play sessions. They should remove the dock cover, as it's removeable, and it's designed to operate with or without it. without it, it will give the Switch 2 excellent cooling. I don't use the dock cover and My switch 2 runs cool even after running with 4K output for more than 6 hours straight while docked.

bee-dock2-back-diagram


Do you use the Switch 2 while docked with the dock cover on? @Dead2009
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Not all of the time, and when I do play it docked it's not for more than 2 hours
 
Saw Switch 2 Micro SD Express Storage expansion Read speed test video. so The Sandisk one is the fastest despite officially with 880 MB/s read speed and not 900 MB/s of the Lexar one. Lexar one is the slowest instead:

time to get the Sandisk Micro SD Express one.
 
cm2 said:
Saw Switch 2 Micro SD Express Storage expansion Read speed test video. so The Sandisk one is the fastest despite officially with 880 MB/s read speed and not 900 MB/s of the Lexar one. Lexar one is the slowest instead:

time to get the Sandisk Micro SD Express one.
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Will keep this in mind.
 
DLSS capabilities analyzed by DF:

From Tom's hardware:

The switch 2 currently supports two DLSS models.

First up, there's "Fat DLSS" that resembles the CNN-based model found on PC, and this can only upscale games to 1080p. It has a cleaner, sharper image in motion, less artifacting, better antialiasing, and smoother camera cuts. Objects move in and out of motion almost identically to how they would on PC — which is to say, gracefully.

But, as mentioned, it's limited to 1080p. To go past that resolution, Nvidia and Nintendo have developed a special "DLSS Light" which can upscale to greater resolutions (remember, Switch 2 is marketed for up to 4K when docked). This version looks better in stills, but looses sharpness as soon as you move because reconstruction techniques get temporarily disabled. It introduces artifacts where you can see unfiltered pixels, but at the benefit of half the frame-time cost, which allows it to scale way past just 1080p.

This goes to show just how demanding the original version of DLSS is; it doesn't make sense to run that on every game, especially in handheld mode. When you need to reach resolutions higher than 1080p, the light model should still be better, despite its inferior temporal performance. What remains to be seen, though, is whether the newer, more efficient Transformer-based model of DLSS can somehow make its way onto the Switch 2 in the future.
 
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