sc94597 said:
Raytracing is going through a few more passes on Series S than Switch 2. Switch 2 looks a lot darker in areas because of less temporal accumulation. You can also see it in the eyes of characters. Also more noise in shadows on Switch 2. And of course a moderate reduction in geometric/mesh complexity on Switch 2. Otherwise they're pretty close. |
Obviously there are going to be some differences, the fact that the lighting engine is largely intact on the Switch 2 and has any ray tracing whatsoever is fucking bonkers on a portable 10-15 watt console in a big open world 9th gen game to begin with.
I remember a year ago even people in the optimist camp thought maybe ray tracing would be reserved for really low end Switch 2 games like basically Switch 1 tier graphics only and something you see very rarely.
I think honestly this puts to bed whether or not this is impressive hardware or not, this is very obviously already on the high end of what people were saying might be possible for this system or even I think some people were saying performance like this would be flat out impossible. And the system is only a few weeks old and just barely getting its first wave of 3rd party games, these are the first baby steps for the console.
I also think it may be time for some people to acknowledge Nintendo's younger hardware engineers alongside Nvidia did a heckuva job here, this ain't 2011 anymore. It wasn't as simple as looking at a chip's node process and determining performance just from that, but the fact that they're able to get this level of performance from 8nm is impressive. They must have really worked hard on this chip design and/or Samsung's process is better than its being given credit for. If Nintendo got a good price on the chip as a result, I would have to say they made a smart choice in that case. They got a good, very capable chip for a reasonable cost it looks like.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 03 September 2025
