JRPGfan said:
sc94597 said:
Right now it is still unclear if the node is Samsung 8nm or 5nm (4nm is too expensive, 6 & 7nm are being deprecated.) With this leak, we know it's not TSMC. There are good arguments for both 8nm and 5nm, depending on which assumptions one makes. We'll probably have to wait for clock speeds to know for sure what's up there.
Performance-wise, we've known the ballpark of where the Switch 2 will land for a while now. The difference between Samsung 8nm and TSMC 5nm would've been about 15% in portable mode (bigger in docked mode, at a given power level.) Basically expect it to perform like a mid-ranged gaming handheld. Capable of running Series S games at similar qualities, but with much lower internal resolutions, relying on DLSS to make up some of the difference. Regardless it'll be much closer to the Series S than the Switch was to the Xbox One.
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Xbox One was 1230 Gflops (1.23 Tflops) Compaired to the Switch docked peak of 393 Gflops. (Xbox One was 3.1 times more powerful)
Switch 2, at like ~2 Tflops Compaired to Xbox Series S, at 4 Tflops. (a 2 to 1 ratio. (x2))
However compared to something like PS5 at 10,28 Tflops  (the PS5 is roughly 5 times more powerful)
Again this is just the theoretical compute performance of the GPUs. Its not the be all and end all, of real world performance.
That said.... yeah the Switch is still very much the little brother in this picture.
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TFLOPs are not a useful metric when comparing between different architectures.
For example,
The PS4 Pro was capable of 4.2 (GCN) Tflops and the Series S roughly 4.006 (RDNA2) Tflops. The Series S obviously is a more capable system for the task of running modern games. Besides, 2Tflops would mean the Switch 2's GPU would run at something like 650 Mhz in docked mode, which is way too low. That's less than Digital Foundry downclocked their 16SM RTX 2050 (downclocked to make up for the fact that the Switch 2 only has 12SM) in their Switch 2 performance simulation. Realistically, we're looking at a minimum of about 800Mhz - 1Ghz in docked mode, which gives about 2.5 - 3 Tflops.
The original Switch was mostly bottlenecked by CPU and available memory capacity. Neither of these are as prominent issues for the Switch 2. The Switch 2 will (if leaks are accurate) have more available memory than the Series S, and the CPU is more adequate than the Switch's was, relatively.