Probably in the same ballpark at least. A lot of the leaks have been shown to be true, and some of them point it to being more powerful than most people are expecting.
I reckon probably not but i do imagine it'll be way more "finished" on release than the Steam Deck which felt like a lot of stability and features had to be patched in after launch, trying to use a docked steam deck and it's locked to 1280x800 is something the Switch never had to deal with!
According to rumors and leaks, the system is somewhere between a PS4 and PS4 Pro.
But the Switch 2 is reportedly using Nvidia technology like DLSS so it could produce nicer looking images than the Deck even at a lower power level. We'll have to wait and see in April.
It might come down to how you measure it. Deck will happily go up to 40W, burning through its 5Ah battery in less than 30m, but you really ought to run a TDP cap, which goes up to 15w. At that power, ARM might have a good edge on AMD architecture.
I'm gonna guess no, but I do think it'll be good enough that it won't matter. Especially bc it specializes in creative titles over photorealistic games
I've been wondering this too! Based on the leaks, I think the switch might pull ahead. It'll most likely have dedicated hardware for file decompression to get more out of the cpu, and the newer nvidia gpu architecture+significantly faster memory will certainly help! but i'm not holding my breath
The leaked specs which seem like they could be right since they follow other accurate leaked info says this is using a rtx 2000 series gpu. The supposed cuda core count puts it much lower than a RTX 2050. That’s not the on,y thing that determines power but it should give you a ballpark idea.
Switch 2 games will be made & compiled for the Switch 2 hardware specifically so they can get to the bare metal.
Even if the Steam Deck ends up being more powerful on paper, keep in mind its games are ran through a Windows translation layer so it’s not fully using the hardware.
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According to rumors and leaks, the system is somewhere between a PS4 and PS4 Pro.
But the Switch 2 is reportedly using Nvidia technology like DLSS so it could produce nicer looking images than the Deck even at a lower power level. We'll have to wait and see in April.
Switch 2 games will be made & compiled for the Switch 2 hardware specifically so they can get to the bare metal.
Even if the Steam Deck ends up being more powerful on paper, keep in mind its games are ran through a Windows translation layer so it’s not fully using the hardware.