By Sickr on May 14, 2025

Tech-focussed publication Digital Foundry has published a full breakdown of confirmed Nintendo Switch 2 technical specifications and it is exciting stuff. This details confirms that the hardware leaks, which go all the way back to 2021, were pretty much on the money. While the system is not quite the powerhouse some had expected, it's still a highly capable system. As Digital Foundry says in its closing statement it's the games which will do all the talking.

	Switch 2: Nvidia T239	Switch 1: Nvidia Tegra X1
CPU Architecture	8x ARM Cortex A78C	4x ARM Cortex A57
CPU Clocks	998MHz (docked), 1101MHz (mobile), Max 1.7GHz	1020 MHz (docked/mobile), Max 1.785GHz
CPU System Reservation	2 cores (6 available to developers)	1 core (3 available to developers)
GPU Architecture	Ampere	Maxwell
CUDA Cores	1536	256
GPU Clocks	1007MHz (docked), 561MHz (mobile), Max 1.4GHz	768MHz (docked), up to 460MHz (mobile), Max 921MHz
Memory/Interface	128-bit/LPDDR5	64-bit/LPDDR4
Memory Bandwidth	102GB/s (docked), 68GB/s (mobile)	25.6GB/s (docked), 21.3GB/s (mobile)
Memory System Reservation	3GB (9GB available for games)	0.8GB (3.2GB available for games)