The Nintendo Switch 2 specs have been leaking for some time, but Digital Foundry is checking exactly what the inside looks like today.
The Nintendo Switch 2 uses the NVIDIA T239 chip, which uses Ampere technology and offers 1536 CUDA cores compared to the only 256 available on the Nintendo Switch.
When it comes to system memory, there’s a total of 12GB of good news, with 3GB used in the system and 9GB available for games (the series S has 8GB). This is a big jump from the Nintendo Switch with 0.8GB for the system and 3.2GB available for games.
As for undocked vs unlocked performance, there seems to be a decent inconsistency that isn’t too surprising, as battery usage is not an issue when a docked Nintendo is targeting 4K.
This is very similar to the original Nintendo Switch with a GPU clock speed of 1007MHz when docked and a GPU clock speed of 561MHz if not locked, but a decent increase on the Nintendo Switch 1.
What Digital Foundry isn’t sure is whether GameChat will dig into gameplay performance, and that’s not what we’ll know until the system is released in a few weeks.
Obviously, since Switch 2 uses DLSS to maximize performance, it is difficult to know how this will shake when it comes to actual performance.
