Bloomberg: New Nvidia GPU For New Switch, 4K DLSS Graphics + Better CPU + More RAM

[JEMC]

Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

To be honest, at this point the rumor seems to go more in line with a Switch 2 rather than a Switch Pro. After all, it supposedly changes everything from the original Switch, CPU, GPU and RAM capacity, making it a new machine.

It will be interesting to see how it shakes out because the thing about the Switch is if you double the GPU/CPU spec lets say and double the memory bandwidth ... the system basically jumps ahead a generation. That's really not the case for a New 3DS or even a PS4 Pro. 

The Switch is kind of in an interesting spot where it's most comfortable being a Wii U+ tier machine but because the feature set of the chip is relatively modern it can stretch itself to handle ports of even PS4/XB1 games like Witcher 3 and DOOM Eternal, it's just a fairly big pain in the ass to do it. 

But you even double that headroom and add in DLSS ... all of the sudden the entire PS4/XB1 library I have to think becomes reasonably doable to bring over, so that is going to be interesting to see how it pans out. 

It's like going on a long road trip in a car that is meant to seat 4-5 with 7 people ... sure you can do it, but you probably don't want to. But a Switch Pro with better specs and DLSS? Suddenly it's more like making that trip with only 4 people, that's entirely reasonable even for a long trip. 

The only problem is the usual one with these system upgrades, who will support all those extra features when only the owners of the new machine will enjoy them? After all, devs already have to work with two specs, and adding a third one may not please a lot of them.