Nvidia Says Its Custom GPU Means Nintendo Switch 2 Has 10x the Graphics Performance of the Nintendo Switch

As Nintendo had teased, Nvidia has present discussed the customized GPU powering the Nintendo Switch 2, though it failed to spell into the level of item tech enthusiasts were hoping for.

In a blog post, Nvidia confirmed what IGN had reported earlier contiguous from Nintendo itself: that its GPU enables AI upscaling via DLSS and ray tracing.

Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI-powered exertion that uses instrumentality learning to upscale lower-resolution images successful real-time, enhancing some show and representation prime successful games.

There is simply a small much item connected connection present connected the Switch 2’s GPU. Nvidia described it arsenic a “custom Nvidia processor featuring an Nvidia GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements.”

Nvidia continued: “With 1,000 engineer-years of effort crossed each constituent — from strategy and spot plan to a customized GPU, APIs and world-class improvement tools — the Nintendo Switch 2 brings large upgrades.”

Those upgrades see up to 4K gaming successful TV mode and up to 120 FPS astatine 1080p successful handheld mode. Nintendo Switch 2 besides supports HDR, and AI upscaling “to sharpen visuals and creaseless gameplay.”

The caller RT Cores bring real-time ray tracing, delivering “lifelike lighting, reflections and shadows for much immersive worlds,” Nvidia continued.

Tensor Cores, meanwhile, powerfulness AI-driven features similar DLSS, “boosting solution for sharper details without sacrificing representation quality.”

Interestingly, Nvidia said the Tensor Cores besides alteration AI-powered look tracking and inheritance removal successful video chat usage cases, “enhancing societal gaming and streaming.”

During the Nintendo Direct, Nintendo revealed the C button, which is utilized for caller chat functionality that incorporates an outer camera and the microphone successful the Switch 2 itself. Nintendo made a constituent of saying the tech is astute capable to wage attraction to the player’s dependable and filter retired inheritance noise.

And here’s the large assertion from Nvidia:

“With 10x the graphics show of the Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Switch 2 delivers smoother gameplay and sharper visuals.”

There’s nary item connected however it’s determined that graphics performance. It volition nary uncertainty beryllium near to experts specified arsenic Digital Foundry to tally the numbers erstwhile the Switch 2 launches successful June.

Elsewhere, Nvidia said the Tensor Cores “boost AI-powered graphics portion keeping powerfulness depletion efficient,” and the RT Cores “enhance in-game realism with dynamic lighting and earthy reflections.”

Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) via Nvidia G-SYNC successful handheld mode “ensures ultra-smooth, tear-free gameplay.”

In a hardware-focused roundtable Q&A successful New York yesterday, attended by IGN, Nintendo representatives confirmed the Switch 2 uses DLSS, but did not specify which mentation of the tech, oregon whether it had been customized for Switch 2. It was a likewise vague effect erstwhile Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s GPU is susceptible of ray tracing.

And what astir the GPU itself? Tetsuya Sasaki, General Manager astatine Nintendo’s Technology Development Division, and Senior Director astatine its Technology Development Department, chimed successful to accidental Nintendo prefers not to get successful the weeds connected things similar the GPU.

“Nintendo doesn't stock excessively overmuch connected the hardware spec,” helium said. “What we truly similar to absorption connected is the worth that we tin supply to our consumers. But I bash judge that our spouse Nvidia volition beryllium sharing immoderate information.”

In January, the net spotted a patent, filed July 2023 but published for the archetypal clip earlier this year, that described AI representation upscaling exertion that would assistance support video crippled download sizes tiny capable to acceptable connected a carnal crippled cartridge portion offering up to 4K textures.

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, and what the experts person to accidental astir the Switch 2 terms and Mario Kart World’s $80 terms tag.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].