Rumors are circulating that Nintendo’s next-gen Switch 2 handheld console will feature over a thousand NVIDIA cores based on Ampere architecture. Earlier this week, reports were made that the upcoming handheld is said to be powered by T239 SoC (System-on-Chip). This SoC is reportedly designed by NVIDIA and uses its previous-gen Ampere GPU architecture and an Arm CPU complex.

There have been various leaks as to the actual specifications of the T239 SoC, and the process node that will be used to manufacture it. According to leakers Kopite7kimi and Tech_Reve, the SoC will be based on a Samsung 8nm process node. 

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.

On the GPU side, the Nintendo Switch 2 SoC is expected to feature 1280 CUDA cores, as per KittyYYuko. This suggests that the SoC would feature the consumer version of Ampere with 128 cores per SM, giving us a total of 1280 cores across 10 SMs.

On the CPU side, the Nintendo Switch 2 SoC is rumored to pack 8 Cortex A78 Arm cores. All of these cores are arranged within a single cluster and is possible that we might see the A78 “C” variant which packs up to 8 MB of L3 cache.

Recently, there have been rumors that the Nintendo Switch 2 was running various games at 4K 60 FPS natively and is also said to offer full support for Ray Tracing & NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies. The Switch 2 handheld was shown to run the Unreal Engine 5 Matrix Awakens demo with NVIDIA DLSS 3.1.

There’s currently no official launch date announced yet for the Nintendo Switch 2 handheld, but more information might come in the months ahead.

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