| Blazerz said: NOBODY, either here or other threads said the Switch 2 will be as powerful as the ps5. Ignore Cherkeller's pathetic gaslight. The Switch 2 will be about HALF as powerful as the ps5, so games will look a little worse graphically but will have the same resolution quality as on ps5 thanks to dlss. Visually, the end result will be COMPARABLE (not equal) and only notable with the screens side by side. The only way it will be super close or equal is if the Switch 2 gets dlss frame gen and it's updated to work fine from lower base framerates. |
That would be very hard to achieve.
Say it's indeed manufactured in 5 nm. A 4060 Mobile with 24 SMs boosts to only 1470 MHz when limited to 35W. That makes it exactly half as fast as a 3050, a GPU that's less than two-thirds as powerful as a 6600 XT (= or < than a PS5). Consider that the Switch 2 GPU should be exactly half of that and 17.5W is still significantly more power than the entire original Switch consumed on docked mode.
Tthe Switch had the same advantages in node and Nvidia architecture and still ended up several slower than a PS4. And this time around, both console manufacturers didn't go for underpowered hardware like in the 8th gen, and RDNA2 performs much better vs. Ampere than GCN ever did vs. Maxwell.
Unless the Switch 2 dramatically increases in battery size (or sacrifices battery life), the hardware gap between it and the XBS/PS5 will be *larger*, not *smaller*, than the gap between the PS4/XBO and the Switch.
Of course, it'll have DLSS to make up for this, assuming the devs are on board and implement it well.
