Nintendo Switch 2 tech specs leak via Nvidia hack and they’re pretty powerful
Leaks from the recent Nvidia hack may have revealed technical details about Nintendo’s next console – but is it the Switch 2 or Switch Pro?
Before we start, the one thing to remember here is that Nintendo rumours, no matter how reliable the sources, almost never turn out to be true.
Every analyst and their dog was convinced the Switch Pro was real and coming out soon, and yet it never happened. However, the Switch 2 definitely will exist, at some point, and it’s Nvidia that may have inadvertently revealed the first details.
The information is convincing because it comes, not from someone’s uncle at Nintendo, but from dataminers looking through the leaked information taken from Nvidia by hackers and which is already believed to contain the source code for their DLSS technology.
What it also contains is numerous references to ‘NVN2’ which appears to be the graphics API for a new Nintendo console, although whether it’s the Switch 2 or the Switch Pro is difficult to say.
It does seem more likely to be a completely new console though, as it’s designed to work with Nvidia’s Ampere GPU, which supports both ray-tracing and DLSS 2.2 (DLSS stands for deep learning super sampling and can increase both framerate and resolution well beyond a device’s normal limits).
There are also references to the T234 and T239 SOCs (system on chip), with the T234 featuring a 2048 Ampere GPU CUDA core and 12x ARM Cortex-A78AE 64-bit cores.
In plain English, that means it’ll be much more powerful than the current Switch, although Nintendo is expected to use a custom version of the chip that may be more or less powerful depending on other factors (Nintendo has to decide how much they’re going to sell it for, apart from anything else).
Given the source,
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