Shortly after revealing quite a few details about the Nintendo Switch 2 during its recent Direct, the company has now revealed even more information about some of the upcoming console’s more technical aspects. In an update to its websites, the technical specs for the Switch 2 have been laid out, confirming that the SoC powering the device has been made by Nvidia.
While we don’t quite get more details about the SoC, such as the kind clock speeds we can expect from it, it does appear to be a custom chip made by Nvidia. Interestingly, this also makes the Switch 2 the only current console with an Nvidia chip; the Xbox Series X/S as well as the PS5 are powered by AMD’s chips.
The rest of the details on the specs page for the Switch 2 line-up with what we were shown during the Direct. It is worth noting that the Switch 2 will be equipped with a 5,220 mAh battery, with promises of the battery lasting anywhere between 2 and 6.5 hours of play time, depending on what you play.
This lines up with rumours from back in January, which indicated that the Switch 2 would be powered Nvidia’s Tegra 239 chip. While not quite as powerful as other consoles or modern gaming systems, the modifications made to the Tegra 239 likely allow Nintendo to get quite a bit more power from the chip than developers would be able to with an off-the-shelf version of it.
The rumours indicate that the SoC’s GPU runs at a clock speed of 561 MHz, roughly amounting to around 1.71 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second) while in handheld mode, and 1,000 MHz (around 3.1 TFLOPS) in docked mode.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will be hitting store shelves on June 5. Check out our coverage of the Direct for more details.
