January 16th 2025.
The highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 has been officially announced, but as usual, Nintendo remains tight-lipped about the console's specific details. Despite the lack of official information, a series of leaks have emerged that may provide some insight into the Switch 2's tech specs.
Many were left with more questions than answers after the brief reveal trailer, as it failed to provide any concrete information about game releases, pricing, or a specific release date. However, this is not surprising considering Nintendo's tendency to keep technical details under wraps. But, as expected, much of this information has already been leaked, and it seems that the rumors about the console's size were accurate.
One of the first leaks about the Switch 2 was regarding its screen size, which is determined by a specific component provider. It's been rumored that the Switch 2 will have an 8-inch LCD screen, an increase from the original 6.2-inch screen of the original Switch and the 7-inch OLED model. Although Nintendo has not provided any official measurements, judging from the trailer, this seems to be a reasonable increase in size as the focus is on the differences between the new and old consoles, with an emphasis on everything being bigger.
The leaks become a bit less reliable when it comes to the dimensions of the Switch 2. However, a mock-up created by Genki for CES earlier this year measured 10.5 inches wide, 4.5 inches tall, and 5 inches thick, which also seems to align with what was shown in the reveal trailer.
But, as any gamer knows, technical specifications don't necessarily translate to better performance. It's the skill of the developers that ultimately determines how games will run. That being said, an analysis of leaked images of the Switch 2 motherboard suggests that it will be roughly equivalent to a base PlayStation 4, with some modern components that will allow it to run modified versions of PlayStation 5 games. This is similar to the original Switch, which had ports of several PlayStation 4 titles.
While no third-party games have been announced yet, it's still unclear what the Switch 2 is capable of, especially when Nintendo is not the developer. However, the leaked specs for the Switch 2 include an Arm Cortex-A78C with 8 cores for the CPU, a Nvidia T239 Ampere with 1 graphics processing cluster, 12 streaming multiprocessors, 1,534 CUDA cores, 6 texture processing clusters, 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores, and 2 RTX ray-tracing cores for the GPU. It is also expected to have 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
In handheld mode, the Switch 2 is rumored to have a CPU speed of 998.4 MHz, GPU speed of 561 MHz, memory frequency of 4266 MHz, and a memory bandwidth of 68.256 GB/s. In docked mode, these specs are expected to increase to a CPU speed of 1100.8 MHz, GPU speed of 1007.25 MHz, memory frequency of 6400 MHz, and a memory bandwidth of 102.4 GB/s.
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