Nintendo Switch New Hardware Revision Has Some Hidden Improvements

Nintendo Switch has received a new hardware revision for its regular model that has a longer battery life, but this is not the only upgrade for it.

[autobotdan]

Cool story

[AK91]

Isn't this old news.

[Goldenhawk521]

So, slightly brighter and more color-accurate screen and better system cooling.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

It has a better processor and a better battery too

[UltraDSA]

How is it better, I read that it is less capacity?

[rob-GP]

@UltraDSA - the new model Switch has a better battery than the original model by about 40% - the Mini has a better battery be about 10% (although that's probably because other features were removed).

I think you've confused the mini with the new base model.

[Peekayboo]

It doesn't have a better battery or cooling both of those improvements came from Nvidia's the new Tegra x1 chip that has a better manufacturing process which it less than huge 20 nm process the old chip used.

"Die shrinks are beneficial to end-users as shrinking a die reduces the current used by each transistor switching on or off in semiconductor devices while maintaining the same clock frequency of a chip, making a product with less power consumption (and thus less heat production), increased clock rate headroom, and lower prices.[2] Since the cost to fabricate a 200-mm or 300-mm silicon wafer is proportional to the number of fabrication steps, and not proportional to the number of chips on the wafer, die shrinks cram more chips onto each wafer, resulting in lowered manufacturing costs per chip."

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[DogJosha]

I've got a day one Switch and it sounds like the fan is rubbing against something. So overheating is an issue I deal with and I think it causes the graphical glitches in Hyrule Warriors. Was hoping for a Switch Pro but if one doesn't come out soon, I am least glad to see them fixing heating with this revision. Just wish it could get a CPU update so that Fire Emblem Warriors has more than 10 enemies on screen when playing in multiplayer mode.

[Peekayboo]

The V2 has a CPU/GPU update from Nvidia, Nintendo only improved the screen and maybe the joycons.

[Bleucrunch]

irrelevant if you ask me. Nothing significant enough, which is probably why Nintendo didn't advertise this. Why couldn't they have released this as the original??

[anonymousfan]

Kinda like the Xbox One S and PS4 slim... Minor improvements which are probably more cost effective today vs when the console initially released.

[Bleucrunch]

I agree with the Xbox One S and PS4 slim, but didn't those modifications came mid cycle through this current generation. The switch was released two years ago and I doubt that this is the mid cycle for the switch in any respect.

Too soon for a modification and this new so called model should have been the original model, and they STILL haven't address most of the core issues with the console...this was done a little quieter than other releases lol....

Nintendo not fooling me or you with this one.

[ocelot07]

I can't speak for the OG Xbox One. But the OG PS4 has 2 or 3 revisions before the slim came out. Not much difference between them other than the fans and maybe the blu-ray drive if I remember correctly. There was the launch model then the B chassis and then the C chassis then the Slim model.

[william_cade]

The Switch is overpriced no matter how the yarn is spun.

[anonymousfan]

I am very happy paying full price for mine... The games on Switch however are too expensive in my opinion.

[Question_Mark]

Sounds like you don’t know much about hardware.

[RedDevils]

It the only console that I'm not worry when I'm in the middle gameplay, where I could turn it off knowing I can always come back to it, even there a power blackout which screw up my PS4 game session.

[Endyo]

Given that I don't actually use my Switch in a portable mode much, little of this is really beneficial to me, but it's good to see they're improving it.

I think they could have done a better test for the new processor than loading. Framerate tests would have been more conclusive. There are too many factors that play into loading for that to be a definitive test of a new processor.

[Tross]

Still not worth upgrading from an original model Switch for, but this model is definitely the one to get for new adopters.

[RedDevils]

Just to stop the permanent jailbreak from the first released.