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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

I wouldn't look too deep into wccftech since their writers aren't very good but rather just pay attention to the sources.

Basically what they are referring to are the guesses that Kopite made when it comes to the Switch 2's SoC:

It's funny. What I said about "the new Switch SoC"?
1. T239 ✔ï¸Â
2. Black Knight/Dane Whitman ❌ (Tim Drake is also start from D.) 🤣🤣🤣
3. AD10F/based on Ada Lovelace ❌ (GA10F)
4. SEC8N/the same as Orin ❓
5. 1024FP32/half of Orin ❓

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) March 2, 2022

T239 would be like the product version in the family. So the original product is called Orin T234 and Nvidia will take that as a base template and create a custom version for Nintendo and call it Orin T239.

GA10F is where it will be placed in Nvidia's GA product stack. So like a GA102 is 3090/3080 and etc. So GA10F is for Orin. They are talking about the same chip, it's just worded weirdly.

SEC8N I believe means Samsung 8nm. SEC I believe is the name of Samsung's semi-conductor division.

First of all, thank you.

I've done a bit of "research" and found the specs and block diagram of Orin (if anyone is interested, they're in this pdf, pages 5 & 6), and yeah, the T234 chip seems to have the same specs as Orin.

So yeah, maybe that T239 could be a cut down version for Nintendo. Given that Orin is designed to work with TDPs of 15, 30 and 50W, they could disable/remove 4 of the ARM cores, cut the RAM in half to 16GB and maybe lower the frequencies to get a sub 10W product to please Nintendo.

It's curious how just yesterday we got the leaked Ada and Blackwell chips and that Ada had the AD10B for a Tegra, and today we find out that the Switch won't use that but one based on Ampere... or not, as this could have changed when the rumored Switch Pro was supposedly cancelled (it's hard to cancel something you haven't confirmed to be real).

No prob.

I think the Switch pro in general turned out to be nonsense as Bloomberg who originally reported on it have continued to get various things wrong with many of their articles about various other things.

I would love for the Switch 2 to have 16GB of Vram but I get the feeling it will be limited to 8GB. The Steam Deck does have 16 but in fairness, Nintendo's OS's have always been light typically due to a lack of features.

And yea, as the hackers come out with more and more leaks, people are finding new things. Most likely, Nvidia will still make a Tegra chip based on Lovelace maybe for a Shield TV as that is over due while Nintendo will get the Ampere chip which because it's on Samsungs node as everyone else is moving to TSMC, should be pretty cheap with plenty of availability.