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| bonzobanana said: There is some debate on this forum regarding CPU performance. |
No there isn't.
| bonzobanana said: I think the Switch 2 is around 3-4x more powerful in CPU performance than the original Switch considering the low capacity battery and power hungry 10/8Nm fabrication process plus the chipset the T239 was developed from but others are claiming somewhere around 8-10x the CPU performance. |
About 3x more performant, per clock.
Which is a good generational uplift.
But developers will be using the new SIMD instructions that have been added since the old A57 cores which came out 13 years ago which will give it a significant edge in games that leverage it.
Keep in mind that there is less work to be done on the Switch 2's CPU than the Switch 1, decompression for example has it's own fixed function block, that was a task that would have to be done on the Switch 1's CPU and could use an entire CPU core just by itself... The best way to increase CPU efficiency and performance these days is often done by giving the CPU less work.
The issue here is that you are ONLY fixed on the raw numbers, the Switch 2 is far more efficient at every level with smarter design choices thanks to nVidia's ridiculous R&D budgets.
| bonzobanana said: You can still see on that video that some of the most demanding Switch 1 games that really struggle to get decent frame rates and have quite low frame rates don't quite pull off the ideal frame rate on Switch 2. The upgrade packs also benefit from DLSS so can render at a lower resolution to allow for DLSS upscaling but I'm only assuming they do that as not heard that confirmed yet but have seen a few comments in videos where it looked like it was upscaled but nothing confirmed by developers in this regard. |
Who cares if it uses DLSS? Let's judge the output image which will vary from game to game and even frame to frame.
I am a gamer who prefers a raw output over upscaling, but if a 720P upscaled image to 1080P looks good, then it simply looks good.
You need to start looking at the bigger picture and stop nit-picking on the outliers.
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