Rumor: Switch 2 Leapfrogs To 5NM Chip, Better Than Steam Deck, Possibly Equal to Xbox Series S

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There’s an incredible new rumor right now about the power of Nintendo’s successor to the Switch. While we’ll discuss the possibilities, we’ll also talk about the reasons not to jump to conclusions wholesale.

There is a Twitter account named Connor / 코너 / コナー, who uses the handle OreXda. Connor posts a lot about Samsung and mobile and isn’t really a Nintendo or gaming focused account. Connor also doesn’t seem to be that fluent in English. However, Connor tweeted this out yesterday:

“Another NVIDIA Tegra for Nintendo Switch will manufactured from 5LPP.

I will keep uploading this info in Twitter as soon as i can.”

What Connor is claiming here is that the main CPU or SOC for the Nintendo Switch, which is still supposedly an Nvidia Tegra chip, is a 5LPP node. 5LPP is a node that can only be manufactured by Samsung in their own foundry.

Z0m3le on Famiboards explained why this 5LPP node is such a big deal:

“The 5LPP Samsung node rumor from ~5 hours ago, found on the last page, offers a ~50% power consumption reduction over 8nm found in Orin.

There were clocks found in the Nvidia hack’s NVN API, a DLSS test using an Ampere GPU, it had 3 clocks, 660MHz “4.3w”, 1.125GHz “9.2w” and 1.38GHz “12w”…

Thanks to Thraktor’s digging, OLED model seems to have been designed to output 4K image, possibly via upscaling (non-tensor core accelerated). This remains unrealized, we also know that the GPU clock for Mariko goes as high as 1.267MHz offering 648GFLOPs, compared to OG’s 393GFLOPs, the CPU also was similar enabled for higher clocks, short of 2GHz. This is likely the canceled Switch Pro model that Digital Foundry mentioned. It makes sense why the OLED model is so different even though the internal specs remain the same.”

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