Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard and SoC dieshot: Samsung 8N process, Ampere GPU detailed

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The world's first Nintendo Switch 2 die shot is here, showing us the semi-custom NVIDIA T239 processor inside of the upcoming gaming handheld.

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The NVIDIA T239 processor inside is fabbed on the Samsung 8N process node, with an 8-core Arm-based CPU with 4M of shared L2 cache, and an Ampere GPU with 1536 CUDA cores. In a separate video on YouTube, Geekerwan showed us a look at the motherboard and SoC inside of the Nintendo Switch 2, confirming rumors from a while back.

NVIDIA and Samsung fabbed the T239 chip back in 2021, which is annotated on the die itself, confirming rumors that the T239 chips have been ready for quite some time. We heard about the Tegra T239 processor back in February 2024, and it appears it has all lined up (no surprise given the Switch 2 chips have been ready for many years now).

The Switch 2 SoC was compared against the RTX 3050 GPU die which was taped out in 2020, released in 2021, as well as the RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, Apple M2 processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, and the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU. There is an excellent summary from R3ndezvous on the ResetEra forums if you want to give it a read.

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Nintendo's new Switch 2 gaming handheld launches worldwide on June 5.