RUMOR: Nintendo Switch 2 leaked factory images/specs/renders

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Zippy6 said:

Was just about to post this thread, will put it here lol:

Photos of Switch 2 factory prototypes have leaked on a Chinese website

This is not official so not 100% confirmed but it looks legitimate to me. The actual image of the circuit board compared to the 3d renders posted lines up perfectly. You can see the additional USB-C port next to the audio jack and the cartridge slot so the 3d renders and the circuit board photo are for the same product. Of course it could be faked but I'd put money on this being a legitimate leak. Pictures below.

Specs

SoC: GMLX30-R-A1
Ram: 12gb LPDDR5X 7500MT/s  (MT62F768M64D4EK-026 (6GX2 dual channel, LPDDR5X, 7500 MT/s))
Storage: 256gb UFS 3.1, 2100MB/s  (THGJFGT1E45BAILHW0 manufactured by Kaixia)

Basically just product codes below, will be cooled by a dual fan setup though.

Audio chip model: Ruiwu ALC5658-CG.
NFC reader model: NXP IPN7160B1HN
Built-in microphone model: CMB-MIC-X7.
Dual cooling fans, model BSM0405HPJH9 and BSM0505HPJQC (copper gaming heat sink).
Video signal conversion (DisplayPort to HDMI) must be chip model; Ruixian RTD2175N must be chip (support HDMI 2.1).
Network chip model: Ruiming RTL8153B-VB-CG and Gigabit Ethernet chip (the base has a network cable interface).
Microcontroller chip model: STMicroelectronics JSTM32G0OB0OCET6.
Video game console protective case model: HGU1100 (size: 206 x 115 x 14mm, made of plastic).
Speakers: MUSE BOX-L and MUSE BOX-R (two-channel stereo).

Just for completeness, LPDDR5-7500 has a bandwidth of 60GB/s, meaning that in dual-channel it would reach 120GB/s. This would be quite a jump over the Switch, as that one has LPDDR3/4-1600 (OG Switch had LPDDR3, models from 2019 and later have LPDDR4 with the same speed), resulting in a paltry 25.6GB/s

Zippy6 said:

"For the first time in the industry, Samsung introduced a new high-performance microSD card based on the SD Express interface. The development was the result of a successful collaboration with a customer to create a custom product."

SD cards with up to 800MB/s speeds. Would work well for Switch 2 games but could be expensive memory cards.

SD Express is from June 2018 and thus is almost as old as the Switch itself, and yet I haven't ever seen any SD card with that standard. In fact, I haven't seen any from the previous standard, UHS III, either yet. UHS II cards that make full use of the bus are already very expensive, clocking in at $100+ for an 128GB card, so I'm not sure I even want to see what UHS III or even SD Express cards would cost. 

If Nintendo really wants to use some existing memory card, they should rather opt for CFexpress. Like SD Express they use PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 for the data transfer, but while SD express is limited to 1 (7.0 specification) or 2 lanes (9.0 and newer), CFexpress uses up to 4 lanes, though then the card is physically about twice the size of an SD card. The most common CFexpress cards are type B (2 PCIe lanes) and slightly larger than SD cards, meaning they are much larger than the microSD cards used in the Switch - but I doubt any microSD card has enough physical space to put enough lanes for fast transfer speeds on it's back.

CFexpress also comes in many sizes, from the more humble 128GB with 1.6GB/s to cards like this 1.6TB card with 3.5GB/s read speed (seriously with this size and speed, you could use that one like a hot-swappable SSD in a PC), giving them enough storage space for a handheld console and a wider price range. They're not exactly cheap, but I don't think SD Express will be any cheaper.