Next Switch tech talk

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Cobretti2 said:

TomaTito said:

Sorry to tell you, but the ARM purchase stopped last month.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-softbank-group-announce-termination-of-nvidias-acquisition-of-arm-limited

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3649132/nvidia-drops-plans-to-buy-arm-for-40b.html

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/08/what-nvidia-cant-buy-it-can-still-get-through-an-arm-partnership/

Well damn that does make things a little bit more different and interesting to see where it all goes from here. Would have been nice to have that NVIDIA money thrown at the next development.

I guess it will now come down to how much Nintendo will want to customise something like the Orin NX. Do they need more RT and Tensor cores added to get DLSS running better? does it have enough to get it to 4K?

Nvidia doesn't own ARM but they are still throwing huge R&D into ARM CPU development:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/

I think they can do RT cores while keeping the cost $400 or less as well as DLSS. Anything Valve can do with the Steam Deck, the Switch 2 can do for less price and the Steam Deck does Ray Tracing better than one would expect. But obviously since the Steam Deck is AMD, no DLSS so if Nintendo chooses to add Tensor cores on the Switch 2, then it can absolutely do 4k upscaling with Docked. If Nintendo has to choose between adding in RT cores or Tensor Cores, they should certainly choose Tensor cores but since it's Nvidia, I think the switch 2 might have both but we will see.