How will be Switch 2 performance wise?

[Soundwave]

zeldaring said:

Soundwave said:

T239 at 8nm has problems other than what it would be as an upgrade. 

It's a shit ton of graphics cores and a chip that's massive for no good reason. 

If Nintendo was interested in cost, they could have the same performance as that from 8SMs and still be clocked very low, 12SMs is getting into comedy levels, you're getting a chip that you're basically getting very little use out of. 

Again it's like spending $5 extra to buy jumbo popcorn when you know you're only going to eat maybe 10% of that, why do that when a regular pop corn is cheaper and then the cookie on top of this is "well we did that to save money", like OK, this makes sense on what level exactly? 

We don't don't what kinda of deal they got we will just have to wait and see. 

They got some magic "you get 50% more graphics cores for less money" deal? Maybe Samsung will also give them a pony that flies with those chips while they're at it. 

There's other problems outside of that too, 8nm Samsung looks like a dead end process, meaning they're not likely to be able to do things like the Mariko and Lite revision the Switch 1 had ... that's conservatively probably 20-25 million of the Switch's userbase just from those two upgrades due to die shrink improvements, to not be able to die shrink would be a massive blow to Nintendo. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 February 2024