@Jeronan only specific 4070 cards have the 12gb. Standard and laptop variants of the 4070 have 8, not enough for native 4K gaming.
Rumored RAM of the Switch 2 is 12GB, not enough for high end 4K gaming, but enough for DLSS to work its magic, though speed is still undetermined yet.
SD Express cards can have up to 600MBps of write speed, which is 6x faster than regular sdxc cards, but way slower than a current nvme.
People complain about these new cards for Switch 2, but the current SDXC cards are just not good at all for modern gaming. Either use the SD Express, or Nintendo had to make the Switch 2 significantly thicker to accommodate at least a 2230 nvme.
@Jeronan Congratulations! I had to create an account just to clarify your ill-informed comments.
As other have said, the Switch’s flop count is really 394 gflops docked, 178 gflops in handheld. Sure, it uses a Tegra X1, but it was heavily modified by Nintendo to save battery and to be able to run at a measly 15 watts. Another misconception, the vanilla Tegra X1 could only do 512 gflops, not the 1 tflop you keep reading on the internet.
Rumors claimed that the Switch 2 would have 3.5 tflops docked, 1.71 tflops handheld. Seeing that Nvidia confirmed the “10x performance of Switch 1”, then those rumored numbers are indeed accurate.
That makes the Switch 2 comparable with the Series S. Switch 2 has some advantages over the SS like better upscaling, since DLSS is way better than FSR, and tensor cores that the Switch 2 can actually use for RT, unlike the SS’ 2 or 3 games that actually have it.
It also has more and presumably faster RAM, which was the worst bottleneck for the SS. Having more and “faster” RAM will indeed make more 4K games possible on Switch 2. RAM is a bigger factor than flops for 4K gaming, which is why people get mad at Nvidia when their ##70 series cards come with very low 8gb of VRAM instead of 16.
SS main advantages over the Switch 2 are a bit more flops (4tf vs 3.5tf, again, inconsequential), and the most notable, it has NVME storage. Switch 2 might use faster SD Express cards, but they have nowhere near the speeds of the Xbox’ SSD couple with the Velocity Architecture. Loading times will still be superior on the SS.
So I had to do this to inform you, since you actually are the outlier on this comment section that got the specs wrong on the Switch.
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Re: Nvidia: Switch 2 Has "10x The Graphics Performance Of The Nintendo Switch"
@Jeronan only specific 4070 cards have the 12gb. Standard and laptop variants of the 4070 have 8, not enough for native 4K gaming.
Rumored RAM of the Switch 2 is 12GB, not enough for high end 4K gaming, but enough for DLSS to work its magic, though speed is still undetermined yet.
SD Express cards can have up to 600MBps of write speed, which is 6x faster than regular sdxc cards, but way slower than a current nvme.
People complain about these new cards for Switch 2, but the current SDXC cards are just not good at all for modern gaming. Either use the SD Express, or Nintendo had to make the Switch 2 significantly thicker to accommodate at least a 2230 nvme.
Re: Nvidia: Switch 2 Has "10x The Graphics Performance Of The Nintendo Switch"
@Jeronan Congratulations! I had to create an account just to clarify your ill-informed comments.
As other have said, the Switch’s flop count is really 394 gflops docked, 178 gflops in handheld. Sure, it uses a Tegra X1, but it was heavily modified by Nintendo to save battery and to be able to run at a measly 15 watts. Another misconception, the vanilla Tegra X1 could only do 512 gflops, not the 1 tflop you keep reading on the internet.
Rumors claimed that the Switch 2 would have 3.5 tflops docked, 1.71 tflops handheld. Seeing that Nvidia confirmed the “10x performance of Switch 1”, then those rumored numbers are indeed accurate.
That makes the Switch 2 comparable with the Series S. Switch 2 has some advantages over the SS like better upscaling, since DLSS is way better than FSR, and tensor cores that the Switch 2 can actually use for RT, unlike the SS’ 2 or 3 games that actually have it.
It also has more and presumably faster RAM, which was the worst bottleneck for the SS. Having more and “faster” RAM will indeed make more 4K games possible on Switch 2. RAM is a bigger factor than flops for 4K gaming, which is why people get mad at Nvidia when their ##70 series cards come with very low 8gb of VRAM instead of 16.
SS main advantages over the Switch 2 are a bit more flops (4tf vs 3.5tf, again, inconsequential), and the most notable, it has NVME storage. Switch 2 might use faster SD Express cards, but they have nowhere near the speeds of the Xbox’ SSD couple with the Velocity Architecture. Loading times will still be superior on the SS.
So I had to do this to inform you, since you actually are the outlier on this comment section that got the specs wrong on the Switch.