NVIDIA's Tegra239 SoC Is "Confirmed" To Be Present In Switch 2; Chip Shot Surface For The First Time

Nintendo's Switch 2 did contain NVIDIA's magic, similar to its previous-gen counterpart, as the chip gets pictured online for the first time.

[blanka4545]

amazing!

[franwex]

Pretty much what everyone expected.

[PRIMORDUS]

Nintendo or Nvidia could have said this last year, we all knew Switch 2 was coming just say what chips it's using, what's so special it's just a underpowered mobile chip.

[Michiel1989]

makes no sense to do that before announcing the console.

[jznrpg]

It’s a tablet chip.

[Neonridr]

it's a handheld device. Not sure what you would expect to power it but a mobile-based chipset.

[bigfish]

You may say it’s an underpowered chip etc but you can’t deny it will produce some of the best games this gen

[shadowhaxor]

SoC's do not produce games. Developers produce games. How much devs will be able to pump out on the hardware, well, that's too to be seen.

[Jin_Sakai]

Nintendo first party will pump out amazing games and that’s what the majority will buy Switch 2 for just like the 150+ million Switch owners. They sure didn’t buy it for 3rd party games. They’re just a bonus.

[PRIMORDUS]

I can accept it's underpowered just pointing it out lol I do have a Switch myself as well as a gaming PC. It will serve it's purpose with Switch 2 but, let's not go crazy here 😂

[Profchaos]

Tears of the kingdom was running on a potato spec device and it was doing things that developers didn't do on modern hardware.

I believe Nintendo knows how to suprise us even when the hardware isn't as strong as people would like

[ABizzel1]

Switch 1 was A PS360 spec device with more RAM and a more modern CPU / GPU architecture. There are PS360 games that still look great today Uncharted 3, Gears of War 3, GT6, Red Dead, Portal 2, Bioshock Infinite, Killzone 2 & 3, Halo 4, Crysis 3, The Last of Us, God of War, GTA5 (yes it’s been on 3 generations of consoles -_-) etc…. All PS360 games that look great still to this day.

Switch 2 is a PS4/XBO spec device with more RAM, a more modern CPU / GPU architecture backed by image reconstruction for at times “conceptionally” “PS4 Pro/Xbox Series S” “performance” with DLSS. And PS4 level graphics still look great especially with image upscaling: The Last of Us Part 2, GT Sport, Uncharted 4, God of War, Horizon, Quantum Break, Detroit, Gears 5, Forza Horizon 5, Cyberpunk 2077 etc…

[gold_drake]

yeh and it shows.

tears of the kingdoms only thing that no one has ever donez was the combining of stuff to make a new thing.

the rest has been done before.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Personally, I don't care if it's a little underpowered because it's a handheld device that doubles as a console, for the sake of battery life, it's okay if it's not the most powerful of the three consoles. I'm just glad it's significantly better than the original Switch.

[Loktai]

Yes... exactly. . "this" gen launched 5 years into the gen. And those games COULD be running more generation specific hardware. You can SAY underpowered because it is. Its also a machine someone may want to use to play more than exclusives... Do you thing Clair Obscur is going to be a good experience on it? There were RPGs which were suffering on switch 1 ,, RPGs... let alone any kind of action games.... I am not saying the system wont be fine, and BETTER than switch 1- But dont defend against "underpowered" like its a lie or wrong to say

[cbuc1125]

For kids sure. I stopped jumping on enemies heads to kill them a long time ago.

[babadivad]

Never heard of this chip. Gotta do soms research.

[babadivad]

Ok, guess that's why I never heard of it. It's a custom job.

[__y2jb]

For reference, a GTX 1080 has 2560 CUDA cores, a 5090 is over 50,000 cuda cores vs switch 2 1536 cuda cores. The console must be wringing every last cycle out of that architecture for it to run modern games.