Rich has been a games journalist since the days of 16-bit and specialises in technical analysis. He's commonly known around Eurogamer as the Blacksmith of the Future.
, revealing for the first time that Nintendo would be receiving a customised variant, dubbed T239. In the two years that followed, a wealth of overwhelming evidence has essentially confirmed that they were right.
After all, going back to the first Switch, no custom processor was involved at all. Despite marketing from Nvidia to suggest otherwise when the Nintendo hybrid was announced, the chip at the centre of the machine was vanilla Tegra X1, albeit with some elements disabled. Designed from the get-go for the tablet, phone and gaming market, Tegra X1 was a dud until Nintendo co-opted it for Switch, where it found a new lease of life.
There's one more component of T239 worthy of comment - the FDE. It's an entirely new hardware block not found in the T234. FDE stands for File Decompression Engine. Similar to the decompression block found in PlayStation 5, this basically allows for ultra-fast decompression of assets from storage and into memory. There was a recent report from Nate The Hate talking about.
On the clocks question, Nvidia provides a tool for calculating power consumption on the T234 and it suggests that the GPU is most efficient at 540MHz, a good candidate for handheld clocks. Efficiency drops alarmingly the faster you clock it, and the more power required, the more heat is generated. I'd be surprised if docked clocks exceeded 1GHz and it could be a fair degree lower. 1.0GHz also looks like the sweet spot for CPU clocks too.
First of all, despite its designation as an RTX 20-series part, it's actually the exact same silicon as the Ampere based RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti - it's a GA107 processor. We can't match the 1536 CUDA cores of the T239, but 2048 CUDA cores is the lowest we can go on a gaming Ampere GPU. So why not simply get a 3050 laptop then? Well, think of the 2050 as a lobotomised 3050 - it has a lower power budget, lower clocks and crucially, it's got a 64-bit memory interface.
My guess is that the Matrix Awakens demo for Switch 2 based on target hardware probably is real, but Epic must be doing a lot of work in making Unreal Engine 5's key features run well on the new Nintendo machine, simply because The Matrix Awakens is a lot heavier on the GPU than Fortnite. That being the case, just running PC code on a low power Ampere GPU isn't likely to be that revealing. Still, it does run. You can use hardware RT. DLSS is helpful.
So, I actually think for a mobile chipset attached to a living room display, 1080p performance mode upscaling from a native 540p will look acceptable, while 1080p from native 720p looks pretty great. It'll certainly look a lot better than most of the demanding Switch games we've seen in docked play.
The DLSS conundrum. All readings here are derived from native 720p, then DLSS upscaling is added to hit 1080p, 1440p and 2160p resolutions. DLSS isn't a 'free lunch' and the Tensor cores in the GPU alone can only do so much. However, if T239 includes T234's Deep Learning Accelerator, that could drastically reduce DLSS's overhead.
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