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Was the rumoured Switch Pro actually Switch 2 all along?
The Switch 2's main processor has been analysed - and its design is older than you might imagine.
Rumours of an upgraded Switch model began as early as 2018, but it wasn't until 2020 that the Pro's attributes including "more computing power and 4K high definition graphics" were reported on by Bloomberg. And the truth is that the vast majority of the performance gains from Ada vs Ampere came from a ridiculously large gen-on-gen increase in clock speeds - an RTX 3070 boosts to circa 1.7GHz according to Nvidia specs, while the 4070 rises to around 2.45GHz. We were concerned about the Tegra X1 powering the original Switch based on its showing in the Nvidia Shield Android TV micro-console - and yet developers delivered miracles from its relatively meagre capabilities.
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