Nintendo Switch 2 SOC Rumored To Pack NVIDIA Ampere GPU With 1280 Cores & 8 Cortex A78 CPU Cores

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Nintendo's next-gen Switch 2 handheld console is expected to feature over a thousand NVIDIA GPU cores based on the Ampere architecture based on the latest rumors.

Earlier this week, the T239 SOC (System-on-Chip) was spotted which is allegedly being used to run the upcoming handheld. The SOC is said to be designed by NVIDIA and makes use of its previous-gen Ampere GPU architecture and an Arm CPU complex. So far, there have been various leaks as to what the actual specifications of this SOC might be and even more so on the process node that will be used to manufacture it.

Now we have at least two leakers, Kopite7kimi and Tech_Reve, who are very confident that the SOC will be based on a Samsung 8nm process node. According to Kopite7kimi, the SEC8N will be used in the manufacturing of the T239 SOC for the Nintendo Switch 2 while Tech_Reve highlights the use of the Samsung 7LPH process node which is an improved version of the Samsung 8nm node. It might sound similar to TSMC's 4N node for NVIDIA which is technically an improved version of its N5 or 5 nm node.

SEC8N.

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) September 14, 2023

Samsung Foundry 7LPH(8-nanometer improved version)

— Revegnus (@Tech_Reve) September 16, 2023

Now the NVIDIA Orin SOC "T234" already features the above-mentioned process node and while there have been rumors that the Nintendo Switch 2 SOC might come in a 5nm node, those sound slightly too optimistic given what we have seen from Nintendo in the past. I won't deny that those rumors can't be true since NVIDIA can use a better foundry process and surprise us with an even better architecture/chip design for Nintendo's upcoming console but do take those rumors with a pinch of salt for now.

8x A78
1280 CUDA

— Elysian Realm