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sc94597 on 16 June 2025
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Pemalite said:

sc94597 said:

Even with the ram limitations I think it wouldn't be too difficult to get an adequate (not great but playeable) experience.

The Haswell i7 + RTX A400 system I was talking  about only has 8 GB of DDR3 (and the RTX A400 has 4 GB of VRAM) and I am able to get a consistent 1080p 40fps DLSS performance on it with low/med settings.

That is a low internal resolution but par for the course with the Switch 2 and doesn't look too bad. 

Edit: Plus the Series S runs the game adequately, of course.

It would be a pretty janky experience with only 8GB System + 4GB VRAM. - Playable, but janky.

We also need to remember that technologies like DLSS also tends to gobble up Ram... And the Switch 2 only has 9GB of the stuff available for gaming, just slightly more than your System Ram.

Your Quadro is basically half a Nintendo Switch in terms of GPU resources, so it's actually pretty impressive you are getting 1080P, 40fps... Albeit with DLSS. I don't imagine you are pushing any visual settings though.

But like I alluded to prior... Any game that can run on a Playstation 4 or Xbox Series S, should have no technical reasons on why it couldn't run on the Switch 2 just fine, there will be downgrades in some areas, upgrades in others to work within the strengths/weaknesses of the Switch 2, but it's more than feasible.

Yeah, it's not the best, but I can see somebody enjoying the game this way. And yes, while the Switch 2 only has 9GB available for games, none of that is going to the OS where-as a portion of the 8GB on this system is being utilized by Windows 11's background processes. Both systems have a total of 12GB (albeit with different memory hierarchies.) 

On this system I tested Oblivion Remastered and Doom The Dark Ages using this A400 (and an A1000) just to get a (rough) estimate of what these games might look like on Switch 2 (with the A400 being a worst case scenario and the A1000 being a best case.) The A400 couldn't do Doom The Dark Ages at a playable frame-rate (15-22 FPS even at ridiculously low resolutions.) VRAM was too much of a limit, even with config modifications. Even when I eventually switched to 16GB of DDR3 it didn't do well in that game. But I was surprised with the performance in Oblivion Remastered. 

I might be missing something, but I was estimating the A400 to be about 85% of the Switch 2's GPU in docked mode and 150% its handheld mode in peak raw performance, given that they are both Ampere and the respective clock-rates/core-counts (768 cores at a peak of 1.76 Ghz for the A400 vs. 1536 cores at 1.07 Ghz docked or 0.56 Ghz portable.) 

Last edited by sc94597 - on 16 June 2025