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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

    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)

The leaks specs are [1]:

- ARM 8 Arm Cortex-A78C

- GPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere, 12 SM/1534 Cores

- 12 GB of ram.

Compared to Switch 1 [2]:

- ARM 4 Cortex-A57 cores @ 1.02 GHz

- GPU: NVIDIA Maxwell 256 cores

- 4 GB of ram.

It should like it should be a major boost in performance from those specs, like maybe 4x improvement overall?

Of course there are more pixels on this screen, so the amount of GPU per pixel may stay roughly the same.

[1] https://thegamepost.com/nintendo-switch-2-full-specs-appears... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch

I’ve heard different leaks to the tune that it is actually significantly more powerful. Rationale being because Nintendo presumably finally needs to take 4k and higher frame rates seriously, and the hardware situation has improved enough for that to be possible under Nintendo’s philosophy (shit hardware with innovative and engaging gameplay). I mean their beloved launch title for the Switch had performance problems maintaining even 20fps at 720p. Pretty embarrassing.

No, it's because Nintendo prides itself to be about games, not about performance.

This was just a hype video, they didn’t mention anything other than “2025” and the date of the Nintendo Direct with more information.

That said, I’m not expecting it to be a giant step up in performance.

Have they mentioned anything? All they have done so far is show the hardware off and one new game, which for the record does look more detailed than its predecessor.

Missing 4K is notable in the current Switch.