How Will be Switch 2 Performance Wise?

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curl-6 said:

Yeah while the Tegra X1 was still a good piece of kit in 2017, it wasn't really designed for Nintendo's needs, instead being a leftover from the Nvidia Shield.
Devs managed to squeeze some remarkable results out of it given its limitations, but this time around the hardware does seem a better fit for capable hybrid platform.

The results we've seen so far suggest that the power gap with the competition is smaller this time around.

So far, unless there is some info that comes out when Switch 2 launches and people do hardware/software teardowns, Switch 2 looks like slimmed down 3050, with 2/3 of CUDA/TMUs/RT/Tensors, with ROPs staying the same. Apparently there are some Ada Lovelace features as well, from RTX 4000 series, but when you compare RTX 3000 and RTX 4000 with similar specs, they actually perform quite similar in RL tests.

Nintendo went conservative on clocks in docked, as with Switch 1, but seeing how 3050 can go much higher than that, I'm guessing overclockers will have a blast with it.

And yes, power gap is indeed much closer, especially due to DLSS...at least until next gen comes around, which napkin math puts, probably, around 5080 level, albeit with all new neural shading and all other bells and whistles...but that's in year and a half from now, if 2027 is to be believed as launch year.