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A month ahead of Switch 2's global release, we accidentally bought a real motherboard of Switch 2! We decided to reverse-engineer its NVIDIA SoC, and reveal the spces of its CPU and GPU, even head to a FIB-SEM to ensure its process node! We'd also simulate the performance on a similar PC to see how powerful is Switch 2. Stay tuned!

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Still the best engineered bang for your Buck/power draw card ever created in my eyes. Power draw of a lightbulb and I put it side by side with my freinds Xbox one at release and beat its performance.

I wish companies stayed on that track.

Yup, that's what I'm using in my NAS for basic transcoding. Works great!

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I wish companies stayed on that track.

Welcome to a world of 1000W PSUs :(

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 53 minutes ago

1000W does sound big enough for a 5090, but what about the other computer components?

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It’s like we’re returning to the early 00s lol. I used to rock a 450w psu in my 750ti build. :( granted I use a 650w today but my rx580 SND Ryzen 5 1500x is getting dated when it comes to new releases.

This is the first year I really don’t meeet requirements. Don’t know what to do with this market lol

[–] Zanshi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm in the same boat, haven't really found anything good to upgrade to that doesn't cost me a kidney.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

The pc market has taken a very consumerist turn and it's actually pretty disgusting. Sad times.

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 34 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

A bit of topic, but it pains me to see how powerful high end phones got. Like most people just use them to text and scroll social media. Why do people spend that much money?!

[–] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.

[–] tobz619@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

If anything, it makes me wonder why we don't have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren't phones or pseudocomputers and don't cost a bomb.

Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Because we already have phones.

The solution is to release games for phones that require a controller, but most companies aren't willing to be the first ones to do it.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 hours ago

I'm probably part of the problem. I've never used a controller except a few times at friends' houses. I grew up with Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, and smartphone games. I don't want to ever have to pick up a controller.

[–] 7arakun@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.

A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Or just use a phone that's a couple years old

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Why do people spend that much money?!

Conditioning. They have more money so they spend it proportionally.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Who doesn't want to spend £50+ a month to doom scroll...

Yeah, I pay like $15/month to doom scroll.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Around the same as the Steam Deck when portable, but with access to significantly better upscaling.

Such a shame FSR looks so terrible, the Steam Deck would otherwise hold up much better against it.

I'm still not going to buy one and only use my Deck though.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

So there really is no excuse for the new Pokemon games to look so terrible.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

From what I've heard a lot of the same og programmers and animators from the game boy days are still in charge of making the games and they don't want a large team. They also don't want to have to work really hard or learn new skills, so basically all the work falls to inexperienced people being led by people with incredibly dated skills. Nintendo still rakes in tons of money so they don't see the need to interject.

[–] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There never was a good excuse other than greed and the fact that everyone keeps blindly throwing their money at them anyway.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As a !pokemon@lemm.ee fan I didn't buy for these reasons but that doesn't stop hordes of parents or certain fans from buying anyways. If they're happy, I guess… meanwhile I'll be fine as long as they don't go after ROM hacks.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

Rom hacks can be so good, but why can't we move past hm's??

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

People who buy a Switch 2 are not the same people who care about this stuff.

[–] Donut@piefed.social 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The majority perhaps, but there's still folks who are interested in the tech side of things.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Ok yeah that's fair. Most people.

[–] Aeonx21@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Not sure why your down voted.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I love how my boy 750ti is in there. My first real gpu and my favorite because it was a time when NVIDIA was showing interest in getting the most bang out of lower power draw. That went out the window

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago) (2 children)

Obligatory fuck Nintendo, and shame anyone buying their stuff anymore.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

If you're gonna post spam, at least spell it right.

[–] gradual@lemmings.world -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yuck, 1/4th the performance of a 3060?

I already have a 3060 laptop lmao. You can buy a 4070 lenovo laptop at walmart for $1k.

And nintendo wants to start charging $80 for games? On top of paying an extra subscription to use our own internet? Yeah, fuck that.

Sail the high seas. Your wallet and your dignity will be better off for it.