Nintendo Switch 2: Is the Leaked Motherboard Indicating a Weak Platform?

General news News Nintendo Nintendo News 01/02/2025

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Big N’s next platform, so here’s a recap.

The Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard was leaked on Reddit. The memory is LPDDR5s made by SK Hynix with 48 Gbit speeds, according to the images. You can see the Nvidia logo on the pictures, which confirms the previous leaks (Nvidia Tegra T239 chip). This SoC (system-on-a-chip) belongs to the Orin SoC family. It has an eight-core processor, twelve ARM Cortex-A78E cores, and a GPU based on Nvidia’s Ampere (RTX 3000) architecture with 2048 CUDA cores. It also supports DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction, the latter confirming that it will support hardware ray tracing. However, the technology will not be capable of frame generation, although this can still be achieved with AMD’s FSR on the big N hardware.

DLSS Ray Reconstruction may be the only advantage it has over the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, but we’ve heard that it may also lag behind the Xbox Series S, and may only be capable of 30 FPS at 4K resolution when docked. A leaked patent for the platform, filed in July 2023, was published on Tuesday. It confirms that DLSS will be used in the console. According to Laura Kate Dale, the upscaling technology could reduce the size of games to fit on smaller storage (cartridges). In the example, a game with native 4K textures might need 60GB of space, but a version with native 1080p textures would only need 20GB, so it could fit on a 32GB card, and the plan is to scale up four times in real time.

there are so many rumors floating around about the Switch 2, but the funniest one is about it being as powerful as a PS4 Pro 🙃

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 1, 2025

Meanwhile, Tom Warren, editor of The Verge, has responded to the rumors. He says there’s a lot of it going around these days, but he sees the funniest part as the Nintendo Switch 2 could be as powerful as the PlayStation 4 Pro, so even one of the “half” updates from the previous console generation could fall short in some way of the next platform from the big N.

The name of Nintendo Switch 2 is not yet official, but the Japanese company is sure to show us the platform by the end of March.

Source: WCCFTech

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