For several months now, there have been active rumors that at the end of this year, or the beginning of next, Nintendo will release a new portable gaming console – Switch 2. This has not yet been officially confirmed, but insiders are revealing more and more details. In particular, in the context of Nintendo Switch 2, people often talk about the use of the NVIDIA T239 chip in the console.
According to insider Keepler, who is known from information from AMD’s technical departments, the chip for Nintendo Switch 2 will be weaker than the Xbox Series S if they are compared directly in performance. According to him, the “junior” gaming console Xbox of the current generation will even lead in ray tracing performance. Although there are rumors that Nintendo Switch 2 will feature Ray Reconstruction, which will improve the console's ray tracing performance.
The insider also notes that the Nintendo Switch 2 chip would have lost to the Xbox Series S even if it had been used in a regular PC: “If the T239 were a desktop SoC with a TDP of 50 W and a clock speed of 2 GHz, it would still lose XSS”.
It is worth noting that the insider is talking about the direct hardware performance of both consoles, without taking into account additional technologies such as DLSS and Ray Reconstruction, which are rumored to be supported by the new Nintendo Switch.