Nintendo Switch 2 will get a 5 nm NVIDIA Tegra chip it will be more energy efficient and more powerful

Rumors about a successor to the Nintendo Switch have been going around for years, but they all held about the same position regarding the chip that will be installed in the new console.

Now there is a small update in the network on this score.

Korean insider OreXda, who has shared fairly accurate forecasts in the mobile industry in the past, claims that the next Nintendo console will run on a new NVIDIA Tegra processor built using Samsung's 5-nm 5LPP (Low Power Plus) process technology.

Prior to that, it was assumed that the theoretical Switch 2 would be based on the Tegra Orin chip (2048 CUDA cores for GPU and 12 ARM cores Cortex-A78AE for CPU) with Ampere architecture, which uses 7-nm or 8-nm process technology from TSMC and Samsung, respectively.

If Nintendo and NVIDIA really switched to the 5-nm process technology, this may mean that the processor of the new set-top box will be more modern, more energy efficient and almost certainly more powerful than the chip that was rumored earlier.

Recently, information appeared on the network that Nintendo allegedly canceled the release of the intermediate Switch Pro and instead decided to focus on a full-fledged next-generation console.

Its release, according to some reports, may take place as early as 2024, but Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser believes that the current Switch "still has a few years left."