Nintendo Switch 2 and its NVIDIA Tegra239 SoC confirmed: check out this shot of the chip

NVIDIA's semi-custom Tegra239 chip has been discovered inside of Nintendo's new Switch 2 gaming handheld, something that has been long-rumored, but now confirmed inside of the switch 2.

The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by the semi-custom T239 processor from NVIDIA, confirmed by X user @Kurnalsalts, sharing an image of the "T239" SoC inside of the Switch 2. We don't have any information on the T239 processor from this post, but we know it should have 8 Arm-based Cortex-A78C cores, a hybrid GPU using Ada Lovelace and Ampere GPU architectures with 1536 CUDA cores.

The CPU clocks are said to be around 1.1GHz to 1.5GHz with varying figures when the Nintendo Switch 2 is in docked mode, joined by a 128-bit memory interface using LPDDR5 memory. NVIDIA's new T239 processor inside of the Switch 2 supports NVIDIA DLSS upscaling technology, too.

Officially, NVIDIA has said that the Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by a "custom processor featuring an NVIDIA GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements". Nintendo doesn't really discuss the chips inside of its products, so outside of the "T239" shot -- it doesn't introduce anything new, other than a confirmation that rumors of the "T239" inside of the Switch 2 being real after all.