Will the Switch 2 finally be powerful enough and popular enough to get Nintendo all the top games?

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

Ah yeah, my bad for using the wrong terminology, higher clocks is all I meant to say.

The current Switch runs at 768MHz when docked, while in portable mode there are three power profiles; 307.2MHz, 384MHz, and 460MHz.

So the highest portable clocks are around about 60% of docked mode, while the lowest portable speed is about 40% of docked mode.

RAM also goes from 1331.2MHz in portable to 1600Mhz in docked mode.

It is all good my friend.  It is easy to use the wrong words in written form, I we all do it.  

I'm surprised we don't see a bigger improvement when playing docked.  Those are some pretty big differences in clock speed.  

A lot of games on Switch go from 720p portable to 1080p docked; that's a 2.25 times increase in pixel count. Stuff like shadows or draw distance are also sometimes better in docked mode.

The visible difference just seems less because the lower resolutions in portable mode are mitigated somewhat by the smaller screen.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 04 September 2024