Which Nvidia GPU Is Equivalent To The Nintendo Switch 2? – BGR

When Nintendo finally revealed the Switch 2’s full specifications, the big headline wasn’t the 4K output or the new Joy-Con 2. It was the GPU. The custom Nvidia chip inside the console is based on the company’s Ampere architecture, the same generation that powers the RTX 30 series, and roughly matches the performance of a mobile RTX 2050. If you wanted a computer setup that matched the Nintendo Switch 2’s performance, it would land somewhere around an underclocked RTX 2050 or a low-end desktop card from a few years back, with the Switch 2’s clock speeds far lower than anything these desktop and laptop parts run at.

The Switch 2’s SoC packs 1,536 CUDA cores and eight Arm Cortex A78C CPU cores, paired with 12GB of LPDDR5X memory, of which 9GB is available to games, plus 256GB of internal storage. The GPU itself is rated to hit 1,400 MHz in portable mode and 1,007 MHz when docked, but actually runs at 561 MHz and 1,007 MHz, respectively. That’s a deliberate trade-off to…