After unheard of hypothesis, we in the end know the actual hardware specs for the Nintendo Swap 2, and they offer a big upgrade over its predecessor. Eurogamer printed the specs, courtesy of Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter, and the numbers cloak a system considerably more highly efficient than the distinctive Nintendo Swap, nonetheless one who indifferent has particular obstacles that developers will must work around.
First up, the Nintendo Swap 2 has double the cores of the distinctive, sporting a entire of eight with two reserved for system operations and 6 on hand to developers. It furthermore sides six times the sequence of CUDA cores, at 1536 as compared with its predecessor’s 256.
The Swap 2’s listed CPU clock tempo is largely lower than the Swap’s, nonetheless the rather a lot of hardware upgrades imply you won’t in truth feel a fall in performance. The differences are negligible, although, with a tempo of 998MHz whereas docked versus the Swap’s 1020MHz. The Swap 2 has a most clock tempo of 1.7GHz, whereas the distinctive had a most clock tempo of 1.785GHz.
The GPU clock tempo is nothing to scoff at, either, maxing out at 1.4GHz the put the distinctive maxed out at 921MHz. The system can rating lower speeds whereas in handheld mode (as expected), nonetheless will indifferent outperform the Swap in every measurable potential.
Previous that, the Swap 2’s memory is considerably improved at 128-bit DDR5 with four times the bandwidth whereas docked. That’s 102GB per 2d as compared with the distinctive Swap’s 25.6GB per 2d, and which that you can well furthermore completely in truth feel that contrast in gameplay. With out an upgrade admire this, the Swap wouldn’t give you the option to scale games up 4K decision.
In the kill, the system will reserve 3GB of memory for itself, leaving 9GB on hand for games.
These are rather a lot of numbers (and which that you can well furthermore gain a gleaming more technical deep dive by staring at Digital Foundry’s video), nonetheless it with out a doubt boils down this: the Nintendo Swap 2 items a generational bounce in energy. Its final performance will near appropriate down to the person games, on the replace hand, and the plan the developers optimize the titles for this restful platform. The Nintendo Swap 2 won’t be on par with the Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5, nonetheless it with out a doubt’s rather a lot closer than it became once.
The upgraded energy is serious, particularly with the inclusion of Recreation Chat. Nintendo expects the service to rating an affect on performance, and a few of that has been visible within the teaser videos so some distance (the cameras had noticeable hotfoot). That mentioned, Nintendo has pulled off one thing of an engineering marvel with the Swap 2, packing the console paunchy of high-pause specs that gain it a handy competitor to rather a lot of handhelds admire the Steam Deck.
Getting a peep on the specs makes it sure how Nintendo became once succesful of gain anxious titles admire Cyberpunk 2077 to no longer handiest proceed on the console nonetheless survey exact doing it, warding off the considerations that sprang up with ports admire The Witcher 3 on the distinctive Swap.