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

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shikamaru317 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

There is now a rumour from a leaker who correctly leaked Nvidia's Ampere GPUs many months before the announcement that suggests the Switch Pro might be using next gen Nvidia's Lovelace architecture. If true, that would be nuts!

https://videocardz.com/newz/next-gen-nintendo-switch-rumored-to-feature-nvidia-ada-lovelace-gpu-architecture

Take it with a grain of salt though

That would be a truly huge move for Nintendo. When Switch released in 2017 it was using a Tegra X1 with Maxwell GPU from 2014. To go from using 3 year outdated tech on Switch to using top of the line 2021 tech on Switch Pro would be a truly huge move by Nintendo. I was assuming this thing would be using a Volta based Tegra chip honestly (but with a die shrink from 12nm to 7/8nm for better battery life), and looking at the specs of Nvidia's automotive Volta based Tegra chipset, which is 874-1410 gflops, I was expecting something like 500 gflops handheld, 1000 gflops docked for a 7/8nm Volta based Switch Pro. But if this thing is truly using Lovelace the specs could be well beyond my original expectations, perhaps even beating XB1 S specs in handheld and PS4 specs when docked. This thing is starting to sound almost more like a Switch 2 than a Switch Pro at this point, between the rumors of developers being able to release games on Switch Pro that don't release on Switch/Switch Lite, and now this Lovelace rumor.

Yea pretty much. I do think that because they want to do 4k upscaling on a mobile chip, they need a certain amount of beefy specs. DLSS is great but with it's current iteration, 1080p is generally the minimum Render resolution that DLSS needs to do it's upscaling. While it can attempt to do it below 1080p, we have seen that it starts to not look very good once you go below it as there's generally not enough information. So when Docked, if it's powerful enough to Render Switch games at 1080p which Lovelace should be more than capable and then upscale that to 4k using DLSS, it would be the ideal scenario.

Plus with Lovelace rumored to be 5nm, it would be hella more efficient in portable mode. We will see how it goes though. On one hand, it's not very Nintendo-like but on the other, Nvidia's hardware division is nothing to scoff at.