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An NVIDIA employee has confirmed the existence of the Tegra239 chip which has been rumoured since 2021 as being developed for the next-generation Nintendo Switch. His comment which can be accessed at linux.org and states:
As of this leak, we now know the following details about the next Nintendo Switch console:
SOURCE: Famiboard's own hardware thread!
This incident further corroborates reliable NVIDIA leaker kopite7kimi's assertion that NVIDIA will use a modified version of its T234 Orin chip for the next-generation Switch.Adding support for Tegra239 SoC which has eight cores in a single cluster. Also, moving num_clusters to soc data to avoid over allocating memory for four clusters always.
As of this leak, we now know the following details about the next Nintendo Switch console:
- T239 SoC (info from above leak)
- 8-core CPU - likely to be ARM Cortex A78C/A78 (inferred from above leak)
- Ampere-based GPU that may incorporate some Lovelace features (source)
- The 2nd generation Nintendo Switch graphics API contains references DLSS 2.2 and raytracing support (source)
SOURCE: Famiboard's own hardware thread!
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