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Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer he have simulate the performance on a similar PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pr_V8rtzrE

A month ahead of Switch 2's global release, we accidentally bought a real motherboard of Switch 2! We decided to reverse-engineer its NVIDIA SoC, and reveal the spces of its CPU and GPU, even head to a FIB-SEM to ensure its process node! We'd also simulate the performance on a similar PC to see how powerful is Switch 2. Stay tuned!

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A bit of topic, but it pains me to see how powerful high end phones got. Like most people just use them to text and scroll social media. Why do people spend that much money?!
- If anything, it makes me wonder why we don't have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren't phones or pseudocomputers and don't cost a bomb.
  Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo
  
  Because we already have phones.
  The solution is to release games for phones that require a controller, but most companies aren't willing to be the first ones to do it.
  
  The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.
  A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.
  
  You can buy handhelds for like $100 that have basically every console game up to and including ps2/ds preloaded. What else would you need?
  
  Or just use a phone that's a couple years old
  
  There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?
- The big benefit is that much horsepower allows the phone to very very rapidly "race to sleep" in that the faster it can crunch the numbers then return to a much slower clock the less power it'll consume overall
  
  Especially as the phone gets older and apps get more complex.
- Why do people spend that much money?!
  Conditioning. They have more money so they spend it proportionally.
- I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.
  
  I know but I don't want to use my phone as a gaming device. The retroid pocket 5 could be the one for me
- theres also isnt much difference, so the higher end , aka flagship ones are slightly better than the previous editions. no need to spend 800-1k+, i bought a OPR12 instead. pixels tries to justify thier flagship prices with thier useless AI chips.
  
  Yea, I got the op 12 because it was just $50 more than the r on Amazon at the time.
  It's definitely powerful enough but I'm slightly disappointed by the software, arcore is just completely broken, and hdr is fairly spotty (works in yt app and photos app but doesn't work in chrome or Google photos)
- There are real video games for phones now, and I'm pretty sure emulation is up to at least on the gamecube era. Slap a controller on it and a phone is pretty much just a hyper-powered gameboy advance.
  
  I can totally emulate PS2 and some Switch games on my phone, but never really use the power
- I keep my phones for 6-8 years. I’m in my 40s and have only ever bought 3 phones, going back to the iPhone 2 3g
  
  Just say you've never cracked a screen, everyone and their brother will be wet
- Who doesn't want to spend £50+ a month to doom scroll...
  
  Yeah, I pay like $15/month to doom scroll.
  
  people that just buy the phone instead of getting a weird contract thingy.
- Apps by corporations are stuffed with ads, telemetry and other crap. It uses frameworks on top of other frameworks and import libraries for the dumbest shit. For example the reddit app is about 120mb while my lemmy voyager app is 8mb...
  The twitch.tv app is 150mb while an open source twitch app is 25mb. It has even more functionality and options and runs like butter.
  Most of the shit phones have to run and process is in the background to track and sell.
  Its really bad and why i encourage people to use open source versions of stuff they use.
- Genshin Impact does make my phone toasty.
Around the same as the Steam Deck when portable, but with access to significantly better upscaling.
Such a shame FSR looks so terrible, the Steam Deck would otherwise hold up much better against it.
I'm still not going to buy one and only use my Deck though.
- So there really is no excuse for the new Pokemon games to look so terrible.
  
  There never was a good excuse other than greed and the fact that everyone keeps blindly throwing their money at them anyway.
  
  From what I've heard a lot of the same og programmers and animators from the game boy days are still in charge of making the games and they don't want a large team. They also don't want to have to work really hard or learn new skills, so basically all the work falls to inexperienced people being led by people with incredibly dated skills. Nintendo still rakes in tons of money so they don't see the need to interject.
People who buy a Switch 2 are not the same people who care about this stuff.
- The majority perhaps, but there's still folks who are interested in the tech side of things.
  
  Ok yeah that's fair. Most people.
- Not sure why your down voted.
Good ol 750 Ti.
- Still the best engineered bang for your Buck/power draw card ever created in my eyes. Power draw of a lightbulb and I put it side by side with my freinds Xbox one at release and beat its performance.
  I wish companies stayed on that track.
  
  I wish companies stayed on that track.
  Welcome to a world of 1000W PSUs :(
  
  Yup, that's what I'm using in my NAS for basic transcoding. Works great!
I love how my boy 750ti is in there. My first real gpu and my favorite because it was a time when NVIDIA was showing interest in getting the most bang out of lower power draw. That went out the window
Yuck, 1/4th the performance of a 3060?
I already have a 3060 laptop lmao. You can buy a 4070 lenovo laptop at walmart for $1k.
And nintendo wants to start charging $80 for games? On top of paying an extra subscription to use our own internet? Yeah, fuck that.
Sail the high seas. Your wallet and your dignity will be better off for it.
Obligatory fuck Nintendo, and shame anyone buying their stuff anymore.
- If you're gonna post spam, at least spell it right.

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