How Powerful Is Switch 2's New ARM A78C CPU?

[underwaves]

In 7 weeks they got Cyberpunk up and running like that. We are in for a treat I think!

[syferz]

ARM officially placed the IPC improvement on A78 over A57 at over 2.9x. If you are going to compare with PS4 with the GPU, might as well compare Jaguar to A57 and A78.

[JeffN]

Switch is running the full feature version of cyberpunk while PS4 and XB1 never got past 1.6 because they couldn't handle some added/ reworked features, Switch 2's CPU isn't weak at all for a tablet

GPU-wise it seems to be PS4 level undocked, PS4 Pro level docked, and may go a bit beyond that when games start using DLSS, but it's looking like Switch 2 won't have issues running the game logic of current gen games

[rjejames]

Im absolutely pumped that 60 fps and 120 is probably realistic in a lot of cases with the switch 2.

[erick_ac]

People forgetting that they cannot compare 1to 1 with the performance on a phone, remember that it has a huge overhead for the OS

[venzoah]

A single A78 core scores about 600 in Geekbench 6 at 1GHz. That is well over triple (nearly 4X) the performance of the Switch 1 in single-core and the Switch 2 has double the cores. DF is undershooting the performance here by a bit.

[nighttimestalker]

All thes people in the comments who aren't actually keeping up with this.

It's essentially between the ps4 snd series S.
Its already out performing steam deck easily in early test.
Already has multiple games at 1440p-4k with out using DLSS.

All this on a literal tablet...
Its a substantial jump ober OG switch. Hell, look at Metroid, which digital foundry just showed earlier... Its 900p60 on OH switch. 1080p120 or 4k60 on SW2. It competes eith PC hand helds that are $200+ more than it cost.

Uts doing perfectly fine.
People are genuinely acting like they expected this to compete with a ps5 or pro....

[utternonsenseproductions]

It should be able to run Tetris. Doom and Pong with fairly minimal slowdown

[ClewlessClay]

Switch 2 isn't going to have to emulate x86 code, it will be compiled natively for ARM

[PhantasmThe]

Yakuza 0 - 4k 60fps
Metroid 4 - 1080p 120fps, 4k 60fps
Cyberpunk 2077 - 40fps

It's good considering it's a handheld

[RicardoIgnacioPodcast]

7 min video telling you that they don't know ish

[spiral]

It's basically a smartphone chip from 3-4y ago cpu wise, so around the SD8G1 in the best case scenario. That's nothing compared to what we have nowadays.

But shit, the OG switch wasn't doing much better in 2017 either and it still got a ton of "impossible ports". I don't think it will be an issue if the console is successful.

[bananachild]

Despite the outrageous game pricing, I'm still very much excited for this console. It's unrealistic to expect GTA VI being released onto Switch 2. But I'm hoping at least for Rockstar to port GTA V and RDR2 to this system.

[zubairhussain]

John would have been great for this discussion

[Jeroen]

I really like Alex in Pc related discussions, but man does he suck the wind out of any conversation related to Nintendo. Zero enthusiasm.

[MisterPikol]

I was just checking old switch overclock videos and im thinking the oc on the switch 2 potential is insane, that cpu can normally turnbo to 3ghz +

[CharlesHepburn]

So it could be roughly 4 times the CPU power, and probably 4 to 6 times the GPU… with DLSS making up the difference to the Nvidia claimed 10x graphics statement. It doesn’t really matter what it is, because it’s a special SOC on a closed platform. Developers were able to get Witcher III on the original Switch at less than 0.5 Teraflops, so if this is anywhere close to 4 to 6 times the original switch, we shouldn’t have to worry about getting lots of great games with awesome graphics in Switch 2’s future. Hardware specs ultimately don’t matter too much… it’s the game quality and fun factor that is the primary driver of a generation.

[drifter]

They should 'Switch' Alex for John regarding the Switch 2.

[icefox]

wild guess: ns2 handheld cpu frequency is higher than docked because a few cores are disabled

[MisterPikol]

remember that they are gonna use tensor cores for the chat to remove the backgrounds, perhaps more