Although the Switch already has three models, the core hardware is basically the same, and the major processing chips all come fromNVIDIA’s Tegra X1 (T210 + T214).
Although Nintendo game consoles don’t rely on hardware stacking to appeal to consumers, the Tegra X1’s backward process (20nm, currently upgraded to 16nm.), Weak performance hinders image quality and resolution of the I play at a higher level.
According to the latest news, NVIDIA employees have confirmed the existence of the Tegra T239 chip. In fact, as early as a year ago, it was revealed that Nintendo was using the Tegra T239 to develop a new game console.
The prototype of the Tegra T239 is the Orin chip, adopted by some advanced new energy vehicles as the autonomous driving computing center. However, the more entry-level version of the Orin family that supports L2-level assisted driving consumes 15 watts and the CPU part is a 12-core Cortex-A78E.Of course, the T239 needs to be significantly modified.
This revelation highlighted that the T239 is actually an 8-core Cortex A78 chip and the GPU part adopts the Ampere architecture, which could introduce some advanced features of the Ada Lovelace architecture (DLSS3?).
For comparison, the Tegra X1 CPU part uses 4x Cortex-A57 + 4x Cortex-A53 and the GPU is still the old Maxwell (256 CUDA). Even if the dimensions of the T239 GPU remain the same, the performance will certainly be improved several times.
After the hardware is hardened, the 4K resolution output (Dock mode) and 1080P resolution that gamers expect will be realized without pressure.
