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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:50 CPU - ARMA78C - Eight Cores - Six Available To Devs
00:04:20 GPU - Nvidia Ampere Architecturee
00:06:44 Memory - 12GB LPDDR5X - 9GB For Games
00:07:55 Storage And The File Decompression Engine
00:08:55 The Switch 2 Display
00:09:55 Specifications Summary
00:11:09 Game Chat Needs System Resources
00:11:42 DLSS Support
00:12:31 Final Thoughts

 

[CrimsonTide]

Where's my insta breakdown? who's slipping here? adamsapple

 

[kevboard]

huh? weren't the specs largely confirmed 2+ years ago already?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Skimmed through the article. The new info (at least to me) is the RAM reservation:

 

[Draugoth]

 

[Mr Moose]

Quick maf, 3.1TF docked? (4.3 maxed?).

 

[deriks]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

 

[MadchesterManc]

So is it confirmed Ampere then? Because there was a thread a few days back with folk claiming it was Ada

 

[adamsapple]

Where's my insta breakdown? who's slipping here? adamsapple

Nintendo and PC only stuff.

 

[TrebleShot]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

With DLSS

 

[Buggy Loop]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

?

Naw

CPU wise it cannot compete with main console clocks

GPU can sort of cheat with DLSS magic and bigger VRAM, but if a game is CPU limited on series S, switch 2 will have a tough day.

 

[Bojji]

Skimmed through the article. The new info (at least to me) is the RAM reservation:

Memory BW looks like the weakest link here.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So is it confirmed Ampere then? Because there was a thread a few days back with folk claiming it was Ada

IIRC it has always been Ampere with some Ada Lovelace features backported, like the better power saving features and the newer media encoder.

 

[Mr Moose]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

Maybe with the shit VRAM in the S.

 

[Shaki12345]

I want to know if VRR is in for Docked or not.

 

[LakeOf9]

I want to know if VRR is in for Docked or not.

They say it is not in, because the USB C to HDMI signal conversion messes things up. They are hoping Nintendo manages to work it out eventually.

 

[Shaki12345]

They say it is not in, because the USB C to HDMI signal conversion messes things up. They are hoping Nintendo manages to work it out eventually.

If it's not there it's a BIG miss for Nintendo. No VRR on 40fps games is a recipe for disaster.

It makes no sense to have it for handheld and not for docked.

Big fat miss by Nintendo.

 

[Kataploom]

So is it confirmed Ampere then? Because there was a thread a few days back with folk claiming it was Ada

It was always Ampere but with Ada features migrated, and can guess which ones, it's also arranged like Ada more like Ampere, I'm not expert on chips lithography but I guess that's for making Ada components fit better? IDK, someone said "Ada but with Ampere cores" or so, not sure if that's possible.

 

[LakeOf9]

If it's not there it's a BIG miss for Nintendo. No VRR on 40fps games is a recipe for disaster.

It makes no sense to have it for me handheld and not for docked.

Big fat miss by Nintendo.

It's not there, it is confirmed it is not there. They are hoping it will be enabled eventually, but the technical issues with unscrambling a USB DisplayAdaptor signal to HDMI while maintaining VRR are well known. It's why Steam Deck did not support docked VRR for years, they only ended up figuring it out and enabling it a while back.

Will Nintendo eventually have it working? Hopefully. But for now, as things stand, no docked VRR.

 

[Nvzman]

That's actually a much bigger spec bump than I thought, looking side by side, I completely forgot the Switch 1 only had like 4GB of RAM.

Looks good overall imo.

 

[peish]

how many tensor cores? how many RT cores? how many rops?

DF is slipping

 

[LordOcidax]

Let's the games talk… Bravo DF, way better video. Expected numbers all around, the maximum CPU and GPU speeds is interesting.

 

[Shaki12345]

It's not there, it is confirmed it is not there. They are hoping it will be enabled eventually, but the technical issues with unscrambling a USB DisplayAdaptor signal to HDMI while maintaining VRR are well known. It's why Steam Deck did not support docked VRR for years, they only ended up figuring it out and enabling it a while back.

Will Nintendo eventually have it working? Hopefully. But for now, as things stand, no docked VRR.

My God. 1 step forward and 2 steps back. They should've figured this out before release. VRR docked is probably more important than on handheld.

They messed up big time here.

 

[Woopah]

The memory system reservation is higher than I was expecting.

 

[LakeOf9]

My God. 1 step forward and 2 steps back. They should've figured this out before release. VRR docked is probably more important than on handheld.

They messed up big time here.

Yeah it sucks, they should have had it figured out ahead of release, especially since they took their time with the release to begin with

Hopefully this eventually gets addressed but who knows if Nintendo cares enough to keep trying to get it to work

 

[GigaBowser]

Let's the games talk… Bravo DF, way better video. Expected numbers all around, the maximum CPU and GPU speeds is interesting.

that cus oliver and alex burtalllia nort in it

 

[FireFly]

huh? weren't the specs largely confirmed 2+ years ago already?

We needed final confirmation of the clocks, and the system reservations were not known.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Skimmed through the article. The new info (at least to me) is the RAM reservation:

Yep. This is what I've been hoping for. Very high allocation for games. That's great

 

[Mr Moose]

Game chat 4 screen shite is horrible.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Glad they went with a gaming focused ARM setup.

Still this thing on 8nm is the reason the battery life is ass trash

 

[Shaki12345]

Yeah it sucks, they should have had it figured out ahead of release, especially since they took their time with the release to begin with

Hopefully this eventually gets addressed but who knows if Nintendo cares enough to keep trying to get it to work

Can't believe it. Every time Nintendo shows a new system there's hope and happiness, which is mostly always followed by disappointment.

 

[Baemono]

Nintendo and PC only stuff.

What happened to you man

 

[Shaki12345]

Game chat 4 screen shite is horrible.

Yeah, what's the point of 10fps video feeds? Nobody asked for it and it doesn't seem a lot of people care anyway.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Very solid specs for a Nintendo platform. I am satisfied with this. Obviously in 6+ years this will become untenable overall and I'll go back to just doing first-party games. But I'm very happy this is an improvement in specs to such a degree that for a lot of mid-tier and small games there's lots of headroom and no "porting down", for a long time, anyway.

 

[Kataploom]

What would that Max clocks be for? Boost speed on docked? Or just Max clocks of the GPU/CPU in general?

 

[QLQ]

Good enough for their games, for current and future games not so much.

 

[LordOcidax]

What would that Max clocks be for? Boost speed on docked? Or just Max clocks of the GPU/CPU in general?

That's interesting, I was expecting max CPU speed like the Switch 1 but not Max GPU speed, maybe in the future they can increase the GPU clock speed with an firmware update.

 

[LakeOf9]

What would that Max clocks be for? Boost speed on docked? Or just Max clocks of the GPU/CPU in general?

Max clock speeds the chip can hit absent software barriers in place (for power/battery management, thermal dispersion, etc)

Theoretically, a late generation game could provision higher clock speeds and/or a larger portion of the RAM (with some system level functions disabled; Super Smash Bros. and Monster Hunter 4 on 3DS are examples of this); alternatively, the improvements could be universal and unlocked n via a firmware upgrade (PSP 2000 is an example of this).

 

[rodrigolfp]

CPU - ARMA78C - Eight Cores - Six Available To Devs

OOF

at least it's good news for the emulators.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Is 9GB of Ram for games more than the Series S?
2 Cores doing all kinds of background stuff not game releated? Wha?

 

[AJUMP23]

Easily the most powerful machine ever built.

 

[Ozriel]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

Not even close.

 

[Fake]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

CPU is trash. The rest is top tier.

 

[LakeOf9]

Is 9GB of Ram for games more than the Series S?

Yes. Series S is 8GB of usable RAM stock (up to 8.2GB after OS optimizations)

2 Cores doing all kinds of background stuff not game releated? Wha?

Game Chat is expected to be the big resource hog, in addition to having a better running eShop/NSO

 

[GigaBowser]

Yes. Series S is 8GB of usable RAM stock (up to 8.2GB after OS optimizations)


Game Chat is expected to be the big resource hog, in addition to having a better running eShop/NSO

devs can porbably disabel gamechat

 

[onQ123]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

Not exactly but it's newer tech

 

[LordOcidax]

Is 9GB of Ram for games more than the Series S?
2 Cores doing all kinds of background stuff not game releated? Wha?

Probably yes, but with time Nintendo is probably going to optimize the OS. Happened before. Also with the max GPUs clock speeds information i think that the Switch 2 can evolve a little bit with the time, maybe can reach the 3.5Tflops docked and 2 undocked.

 

[LakeOf9]

devs can porbably disabel gamechat

They can't right now. It may be allowed in the future but for now Game Chat is part and parcel of the S2 SDK

 

[kevboard]

not a fan of how much system resources are used for game chat tbh... not sure if that gimmick is worth it. I could see them drop it later into the generation, similar to how Microsoft dropped window snapping on Xbox One to free up resources

 

[memoryman3]

Not that was really a doubt, but it's better than a Series S

That's like claiming a 3060 is better than a 3070ti…it just isn't.