| Pemalite said: Samsungs 8nm is literally based on their 10nm process. - The claim the Switch 2's SoC is "close to 10nm" is thus a laughable statement, because Samsung 8nm is not 8nm geometrically, it's a refined 10nm process, advertising at it's finest. The Synthetic benchmarks are not representative of real-world performance. |
Samsung's 8LPP/LPU process has a tighter gate pitch, different contacts, and different track and cell heights. It's an extension of 10LPE/LPU but it's not like they slapped a new name into the same old thing.
Granted, the custom 8N process Nvidia used for consumer Ampere already lacked some of the features of Samsung's "8nm" node, but the Switch 2's SoC (which is not a die-harvested Orin, by the way...) even more so.
