Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

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Goodnightmoon said:

curl-6 said:

In the dock, sure, but in all likelihood, the only boost it get from docking in most games is resolution and, in some GPU-bound games, a more stable framerate.

Lighting, shading, textures, effects, geometry, etc, will all still be in the Wii U's ballpark.

Why? On my PC I can downgrade most of those things, why can't the devs put a lower level on some/all of those while undocked?

Because console games are heavily optimized specifically for the hardware they're ran on. Games will run worse on the switch if game engines have to be designed to constantly have to check the operating mode of the device rather than just use hardcoded values. It's the same reason PS4 games run and look better on the PS4 than games on similarly spec'd PCs.