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DF Weekly: What does the Switch 2 motherboard leak say about system performance?

Digital Foundry breaks down the latest leaks surrounding Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2.

Seemingly a cut-down version of the massive, hulking T234 used in the automotive industry, kopite7kimi believes it is fabricated on the Samsung 8nm process, as used for T234 and Nvidia's entire range of RTX 30-series consumer GPUs. Another advantage Switch 2 has over its predecessor is that T239 is specifically built for the purpose at hand - even if there are challenges with the process technology, they would have been factored into the design and thoroughly tested during the simulation phase before the first chip was manufactured. I'm not entirely sure where this notion came from, but in a world where AMD's top-of-the-line Strix Point processor, running on the latest TSMC process, is nowhere near Pro's rasterisation performance, I'd say that this is wishful thinking - which often surrounds new console speculation.

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