The long-rumored hardware specifications for the Nintendo Switch 2 have been revealed by Digital Foundry (via Eurogamer), confirming many of the leaked specs that have been floating around online for months now. The Nintendo Switch 2 will be powered by an NVIDIA T239 chip with eight ARM Cortex A78C CPU cores and an Ampere GPU (NVIDIA RTX 30 series class) with 1536 CUDA cores.
One interesting details from the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware specifications is that the CPU can clock up to a max of 1.7GHz, and six cores are available for use for developers. For the GPU, 9 GB of memory are available to developers for games, while 3 GB are reserved for the system.
Full specifications can be read below:
Nintendo Switch 2 Hardware Specifications
| Console | Nintendo Switch 2 (NVIDIA T239) | Nintendo Switch (NVIDIA Tegra X1) |
| CPU Architecture | 8x ARM Cortex A78C | 4x ARM Cortex A57 |
| CPU Clocks | 998MHz (docked) 1101MHz (mobile) Max 1.4GHz | 1020 MHz (docked /mobile) Max 1.785GHz |
| CPU System Reservation | 2 cores (6 for developers) | 1 core (3 for developers) |
| GPU Architecture | Ampere | Maxwell |
| CUDA Cores | 1536 | 256 |
| GPU Clocks | 1007MHz (docked) 561MHz (mobile) Max 1.4GHz | 768MHz (docked) up to 460MHz (mobile) Max 921MHz |
| Memory/Interface | 128-bit/LPDDR5 | 64-bit/LPDDR4 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 102GB/s (docked) 68GB/s (mobile) | 25.6GB/s (docked) 21.3GB/s (mobile) |
| Memory System Reservation | 3GB (9GB for games) | 0.8GB (3.2GB for games) |
Nintendo Switch 2 will launch on June 5 for $449.99. A bundle will be available for $499.99 featuring Mario Kart World. Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 at Best Buy, Walmart and Target went live on April 24 at 12:00 a.m. EDT and quickly sold out within just a few hours. However, Nintendo and other retailers will periodically replenish stock leading into launch. Other games like Cyberpunk 2077 and upgrade packs for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will also be available at launch.
