Leaked Nintendo Switch 2 specs reveal how powerful the next-gen console may be.
Specifications for the next-generation Nintendo Switch 2 have leaked, revealing what chip will be included and the expected level of performance.
Inside, the Nintendo Switch 2 will reportedly use the "T239" chip with 8 x Arm A78C cores, an Ampere GPU with 1536 CUDA cores, 128-bit LPDDR5 memory support with up to 102GB/sec of memory bandwidth in total. There are "extra little bonuses" inside of this chip, too.
The media block has been backported from the latest Ada Lovelace GPU architecture - a custom Ampere GPU will be found in T239 - so it "should be faster with support for more formats, including AV1." Improved clock-gating is here, which is a way of improving efficiency from dormant silicon, is another Ada feature that has "somehow found its way into T239".
There's also FDE, which is the File Decompression Engine, similar to what Sony uses as the decompression block inside its PlayStation 5 console. MLID's new video states this basically allows for ultra-fast decompression of assets from storage and into memory. There was a recent report from Nate The Hate talking about a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild demo running on next-generation Switch 2 hardware with "zero loading times".
The new T239 chip has the hardware capable to have ultra-fast loading, but it's "going to need a much faster storage format to make that possible".
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