NINTENDO NEWS – Rumors have been circulating about the next platform from the big N, which has yet to be officially unveiled, regarding the Switch 2’s TFLOPS performance.
Data mining may have revealed exactly what the processing power of the Nintendo Switch 2 will be. According to Famiboards forum user Zachy, if we use the Japanese company’s next console in handheld mode, i.e. not docked, the GPU clock speed will be 561 MHz, resulting in 1.71 TFLOPS. If we dock the Nintendo Switch 2, the clock speed will almost double to 1000 MHz, and it will then be capable of 3.1 TFLOPS of computing power.
Let’s put this into context. Nvidia’s RTX 3060 (from 2021), now two generations earlier, is capable of 12 TFLOPS. Granted, this is a desktop graphics card, so the comparison is not entirely accurate. For consoles, the Nintendo Switch 2 should be compared to the Xbox Series S. We’ve heard that the Japanese company’s new device will be inferior to the smaller current-gen Xbox, which is justified because the Xbox Series S can do 4 TFLOPS of computing power, and it’s no wonder that third-party developers (such as Ubisoft or Konami; we wrote about them yesterday) are scaling down to the big N’s console with the Xbox Series S in mind.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra T239 chip (an eight-core CPU and an Ampere-based GPU with 2048 CUDA cores), and because of Nvidia’s foundations, DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction technologies will also be supported. These are not available on the Xbox Series S, which, like the big box and PlayStation 5, is AMD-based. Ray Reconstruction may not be used by many, as the relatively poor performance of the GPU will not be used much for ray tracing.
As for Nintendo Switch 2, the Japanese company has only officially announced that it will have backwards compatibility of the Switch catalog. The reveal will take place at the end of March.
Source: WCCFTech
