New Switch 2 specs show large performance dip in undocked mode

While Nintendo offered an official spec sheet for the Switch 2 last month, neither it nor an accompanying blog post from chip-making partner Nvidia provided many specific numbers for the upcoming console's raw CPU and GPU horsepower. Today, though, Digital Foundry is offering what it calls "rock-solid confirmation" of the system's final tech specs, adding detail and clarity to years-old leaks and educated speculation on the system's internals (which turned out to be largely reliable in the end). Unlike the Switch—which basically used an off-the-shelf Nvidia Tegra T1 chip—Digital Foundry says the Switch 2 is using "very much custom silicon designed specifically for Nintendo and for mobile gaming." You can see what that means in terms of raw hardware performance in the tables below. Switch 2 Switch Docked (Quality) Undocked (Performance) Docked (Quality) Undocked (Performance) CPU clock 998 Mhz 1101 Mhz 1020 Mhz 1020 Mhz GPU clock 1007 Mhz 561 Mhz 768 Mhz 460 Mhz Ray-tracing 20 gig ... Read full article.