The motherboard inside the unannounced Nintendo Switch successor, dubbed Switch 2, has allegedly been leaked.
Pictures of what is being claimed as the motherboard of the Nintendo Switch 2 have apparently been leaked. If accurate, the leak confirms that Nintendo’s next console will be powered by an NVIDIA SoC and use TSMC N6/SEC8N technology. The chip is rumored to be the NVIDIA Tegra T239, which comes with 1,536 CUDA cores.
Nintendo Switch 2 Leaked Motherboard Images
Pictures of the alleged Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard can be seen below.
While T239 isn’t stated on the chip, a portion of the internal SoC codename has been concealed by the uploader. The visible parts of the code are the beginning “G” and ending “1”, suggesting that it is the previously leaked GMLX30-R-A1 SoC code that had appeared on a file hosting site alongside alleged prototype images of the console. The aforementioned leak had also mentioned on-board 6GB*2 LPDDR5X memory. The new images of the alleged Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard tend to confirm this, as there is an SK Hynix H58GE6AK7B LPDDR5X memory module visible on the board.
Furthermore, images of the Nintendo Switch successor’s motherboard also confirm a USB-C port, magnetic connectors, and a game card slot. The earlier leak had also mentioned flash memory (256 GB, 2100 MB/s), an on-board audio chip, an NFC reader, a built-in microphone, dual cooling fans paired with a copper heat sink, video signal conversion (DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1), an on-board network chip, an on-board microcontroller chip, and on-board speakers.
Earlier, Taiwain’s Economic Daily had claimed that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be equipped with the NVIDIA T239 chip and a battery with greatly improved life. Additionally, the handheld’s display will have a refresh rate of 120Hz, leading to the possibility of certain games targeting a frame rate of 120fps. It’s currently unknown whether the display will also support Variable Refresh Rate, but it would certainly make sense for it to do so. The source had also mentioned that the console would retail for the price of 400 US Dollars.
