Nintendo Switch's Tech Details Leak; It Won't Be Powerful In Handheld Mode!

General news News 12/20/2016

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Nintendo‘s upcoming console continues to leak.

Digital Foundry has analyzed the Nintendo Switch‘s CPU and GPU in both docked and handheld mode.

The Switch‘s CPU will run on 1020 megahertz regardless of which mode is the handheld/desktop console hybrid using. The memory‘s bandwidth can change between 1331 and 1600 megahertz, and the GPU will show a sizable difference between the modes. As a handheld, it runs at 307.2 MHz, but in docked mode, that’s 768 MHz, which means that Nintendo has underclocked the NVidia Tegra X1 chip because, in the NVidia Shield, it runs on 1 GHz.

The roughly sixty percent performance drop in handheld mode is explained with the smaller thermal and power requirement: the battery won’t run dry in just mere minutes with this solution.

The Switch presentation is less than a month away, and Nintendo might change these specs by the time the console gets revealed in detail!

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