Chrkeller said:
I'm not moving anything. Performance is ram and bandwidth. The S2 has 20% more ram but minus 50% speed. Just facts. The bandwidth is the limiting factor like I've said for a year now. By comparison to high, the 4090 has 24 gb, which is great, but it is also 1000 gb/s. Don't under estimate bandwidth. The good news is the deck runs games, and the S2 is more powerful. Low resolution, low settings and 30 fps on big games is feasible. |
Nintendo chose the higher bandwidth solution. A Switch 2 the size of a laptop is a Switch 2 that only sells 20-30 million units, Nintendo is in the business of selling 150 million systems, not a niche amount of hardware for tech nerds.
LPDDR5X is a fantastic performance choice, it's the higher end of the two options they realistically had the chose from (LPDDR5X or LPDDR5). Switch 2 will have more RAM than the Series S and higher bandwidth than the Steam Deck and ROG Ally ... this is a very nice compromise that still is cognizant of a having a good performing machine. Wii/DS/3DS/Wii U this definitely is not, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM even today is something really only used in quite expensive mobile devices. Nintendo fans should be quite happy with this news, the main reason to use LPDDR5X is if you want higher performance from your hardware, the fact that they went that route indicates they want a system that has a fairly good level of performance, otherwise you don't need the more expensive RAM choice.