Nintendo Switch 2 Performance Upgrades and Comparisons with SteamDeck

TapTechNews July 8th news, the source Moore'sLawisDead said in a recent podcast program that the Nintendo Switch 2 game console will focus on improving performance compared to the current model, with the design goal of significantly enhancing performance in the console mode and maintaining good battery life in the handheld mode.

According to it, the Switch 2 body adopts a fanless design and will run at a power of 5 watts in the handheld mode; it will run at a power of 15-30 watts when inserted into the Dock with a complete cooling solution.

In addition, the source revealed that the processor core of Switch 2 is weaker than that of SteamDeck, so it may not be comparable in terms of frames. But thanks to the support of DLSS in the console mode and the possible use of some ray tracing functions, some works may be better in resolution and game graphics.

For comparison, TapTechNews found out that the current SteamDeck OLED game console uses a 6nm Zen2 architecture CPU and an RDNA2 architecture GPU, among which the CPU has 4 cores and 8 threads, and the GPU has 8 processing units, giving the APU a graphics processing capacity of 1.6 TFLOPS.

Based on TapTechNews' previous reports, the specifications of the Nintendo Switch 2 game console are expected to be as follows:

Chip: Custom Nvidia Tegra T239 chip, supporting some technologies of Ada Lovelace GPU (ray tracing and DLSS 3.1)

Screen: 8-inch 720P LCD screen, supporting HDMI 2.1, 10-bit color, HDR, and 4K 60 output.

RAM: 12GB LPDDR5X

Storage space: 64/128/256GB UFS 3.1

Battery life: 3-6 hours

Features: Can be linked with smartphones, improved backward compatibility, magnetic Joy-Con