Nintendo Switch 2 Docked/Undocked TFLOPS leaked

Data mining may have leaked the Nintendo Switch 2’s computing power in teraflops. According to Famiboards, Zachy usesthe unlocked or handheld mode will have a GPU clock speed of 561 MHz, which equates to 1.71 TFLOPS. In docked mode, the GPU clock speed almost doubles to 1000 Mhz, which equates to around 3.1 TFLOPS.

That’s a quarter of the 12 TFLOPS of the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, which launched in 2021. However, the RTX 3060 is a desktop GPU, so it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. A better comparison is Microsoft’s Xbox Series S console. It has been said that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be less powerful than the Xbox Series S, and indeed the leaked TFLOPS data supports this theory as the Series S has 4 TFLOPS of computing power. It’s not that big of a difference, though, and third-party game developers will no doubt use their Xbox Series S configurations as starting targets for their ports to the new Nintendo console.

The Nintendo Switch 2, powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 239 SoC (with an eight-core CPU and an Ampere-based GPU with 2048 CUDA cores), has one advantage over the Xbox Series S: its reported native support for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction technology. While the latter might not prove to be very useful since developers don’t want to use the scarce GPU power on ray-tracing effects, DLSS SR will actually be invaluable in lifting performance to acceptable standards.

New leaks and rumors about the new Nintendo console appear almost daily at this point. The Japanese game developer and console maker has promised that it will reveal the hardware (which is confirmed to include backwards compatibility with existing Switch games, giving instant access to a very large library) before the end of March, which is when Nintendo’s fiscal year ends.