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Switch 2: the tech specs that Nintendo and Nvidia are not sharing

How powerful is the custom T239 processor in the new console and how does it compare to PS4 and Steam Deck? Digital Foundry reports.

The story begins on June 11, 2021 where noted PC leaker kopite7kimi discussed a chip called T239, apparently derived from the T234 processor Nvidia uses for the automotive industry and its own Jetson Nano dev kit. However, similar to the way the original Switch offered GPU performance seemingly in the Xbox 360/Wii U class, we should expect more - simply by virtue of the fact that although the RTX 30-series Ampere architecture is now getting on for five years old, it supports all the modern features a developer would want: hardware-accelerated ray tracing, mesh shaders and machine learning for DLSS upscaling, just for starters. Right now though, I'm wondering what has happened to Nvidia DLSS - conspicuously absent in the form we recognise within last week's Nintendo Direct (with the possible exception of Hitman: World of Assassination - we've asked IO Interactive to confirm).

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