| Soundwave said: You made an educated guess on the exact number of CUDA cores, RAM, storage, and other details of the Switch 2 which then turned out to be true? Really? That leak was legitimate, as a matter of fact a lot of the fucking leaks, including the Christmas Day 2024 leaker were spot on correct and the people doubting in them were wrong looking back at it now. |
I did make a correct educated guess on the number of CUDA cores, what SoC architecture (Tegra Orin over Thor or Xavier) and RAM and it's target TDP of 10w.
I had actually said in the early Switch 1 days that I hoped that Switch 2 would come with 16GB of Ram to let the SoC breathe with RT and DLSS without sacrificing the OS/background tasks. Instead... Nintendo reserved the DRAM for the OS at the expense of RT and DLSS, but realistically expected 12GB for cost reasons.
I never made any assertions on storage (As I don't care, I run physical) or display (I just wanted 8" or larger).
And again... Leaks and rumors and educated guessed are pretty pointless, they have been proven to be wrong in the past, they will be wrong in the future... You can only ascertain their legitimacy after the fact with hindsight.
If you try and pass rumor/leaks/educated guesses off as fact, you are simply an idiot.
I could have been wrong with my guesses. But I wasn't.
| Soundwave said: Virtually any Ampere chip can run PS5 tier games, hell probably any Turing based chips too. |
You are not running it like the GPD Win 5.
The Ampere chip in the Switch 2 is not like higher tiered Ampere chips.
| Soundwave said: As for the rest of it, I'm going to just say I don't agree with you and leave it that. |
Good admission that you don't have a relevant rebuttal. I'll take the win.
| Soundwave said: You want to gatekeep what defines hardware categories and say everyone has to adhere to what you think, no thanks I don't agree with your assessments or conclusions. Switch 2 keeping pace even with things like $1000 portables tells me what I need to know, already having a lot of high end next-gen games confirmed for the system also tell me what kind of hardware it is. |
False.
Switch 2 performs like a low-end console like the Xbox Series S.
It performs like a mid-range handheld... The GPD Win 5 is a high-end handheld and it obliterates all other handhelds in the handheld space.
It's almost a generation ahead of the Switch 2 in performance and graphics.
| Soundwave said: This level of power in the Switch 2 isn't an accident either IMO, they chose this design and worked on a custom chip on this design knowing it would be able to run PS5/XSS level software. I would bet they tested this shit out years ago and knew it would be able to run this tier of games. I doubt it's an accident or just somehow worked out this way. If they wanted just around PS4 level results they could have done so with a lesser chip than this, they wanted better than that and got it. |
It's not really a custom chip. It's semi-custom. The ISA and everything was done for nVidia DRIVE/IoT/Professional/Developer/Signage and Edge platforms.
It definitely punches above a PS4, Cyberpunk 2077 is all the evidence you need for that.
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