Digital Foundry Digs Into The Nvidia Chip Rumoured To Power ‘Switch 2’

And takes a look at what the console might be able to run.

Rumours of Nintendo’s next console — the one that we are still preliminarily referring to as the ‘Switch 2’ — have continued to come thick and fast this year and, if they are to be believed, all signs are pointing towards an announcement and release in 2024. Many of these rumours are built on hearsay, but the tech experts over at Digital Foundry have been digging into something more concrete: the chip that it is believed sits at the heart of the Switch successor.

Of course, none of this is official for the moment (the amount of official ‘Switch 2’ news out there wouldn’t fill the back of a postage stamp), but Digital Foundry states that the chip in question, dubbed Nvidia’s T239, is almost certainly tied to a Nintendo project due to how it continues to support the “console-specific graphics API” that was used on the original Switch’s Tegra chip. In short, it’s all rather interesting.

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