 Alright folks, we're going to be talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 today, we got a little voice over gameplay for you, we're just taking it light and easy, we did have the Nintendo Direct this morning plus another live stream chitchatting with you guys and reacting to that Direct tonight, possibly having Andrus restart coming on as well, we'll see what happens there, but I wanted to get this news out to you because it is a interesting story and yes this is potentially leaks, I will say obviously take everything with a grain of salt, rumors, all of that, we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2, the system hasn't even been announced officially by Nintendo Switch, they've just announced they're working on hardware, that being said they do come from some pretty reliable places and we're going to talk about the actual chip, the actual you know the chipset inside the SOC that's gonna be running the Nintendo Switch 2, now before we get into that though I want to remind you we are in a road to 150,000 subscribers, I would appreciate if you would go ahead and smash that validation button, subscribe to the channel and ring a link that ding a link to be notified of all future uploads, alright so let's dive into what we're talking about here because it comes from a few places, now I got a lot of the summary of this information over on the gaming leaks and rumors Reddit, there's a couple really nice posts over there, we'll link to it down below, but the sources on everything seems to be Copight 7 Kimmy and Kepler underscore L2, these are two Twitter slash X users and they have a very strong track history when it comes to leaking PC hardware components so AMD, Nvidia, these are the sort of people that would have you know knowledge or has proven to in the past to have knowledge of upcoming releases of hardware, where they get it from, we're not you know always 100% sure, you know this is very technical stuff and may not make a lot of sense to some of you guys, I want to try my best to explain it as much as I can, but yeah this is a very interesting stuff but again take it all with a grain of salt, you know this is again a system not even announced yet, but the Nvidia slash AMD leaker Copight 7 Kimmy claims the Nintendo Switch 2's SOC which we've been sort of assuming is the T239 is going to be manufactured on an 8 nanometer process, this actually would make the chip fairly large for a handheld around the size of the the chipset that's inside like the Xbox Series S, that's a pretty beefy size chip, now with the Nintendo Switch bumping up the screen to 8 inches, we always assume maybe that was to differentiate it from the current Switch OLED, but maybe it's really because they needed more space anyways, so why not utilize that space the more screen real estate because they might need a better cooling solution, I really really hope they go with like vapor chamber or something and stick away from the heat fins, but we'll see what Nintendo decides to do behind the scenes, I know vapor chambers are obviously more expensive, now what's really interesting here is that Kepler underscore L2 who again as I said is also another known PC hardware leaker added more context to what's going on with the Switch 2, he emphatically states which I mean emphatically just with emphasis he just straight up says this is what it is, I'm sort of adding the emphasis myself that the T239 is literally Switch 2 and that's what all the SOC is actually intended to be used for, like this whole time the T239 was being designed specifically for this system, whether or not it gets reused elsewhere who knows, but for now this is like the only thing coming out that's going to end up using this chip and at least in the moment, now it is a fully customized chip and there is a readme.txt file for the T239 available over our Github and we'll link to that down below and it states that the T239 is based on ampere underscore B, now we have known for a while that the T239 was likely based on ampere, there was some rumors you know a while back that maybe it was Lovelace, now to give you an idea to compare Lovelace is the 4,000 series GPUs, you hear about the 4090s, the 4080s, 4070s, you know that's their most modern up-to-date PC hardware GPUs, that's Lovelace, Adelavelace etc, the ampere line is the 3,000 series GPUs, so 3050, 3060, 3070, 3080 but even amongst those lines there are different chips in the lower end and the high end, this is pretty normal because they're not going to take a high-end chip and cut it back all the way down to be a 3050, they'll just have a slightly different chip design using similar technology, so it is important to know what ampere underscore B is, now what's really cool about ampere underscore B is that it's the exact same iteration of chip, obviously this is custom but it's the exact same iteration that is being used in the 3070 Ti, not the 3070 but the 3070 Ti, the 3080, the 3080 Ti, the 3090 and the 3090 Ti, that's right, this chip is based on the T239 is based on the top tier version of ampere, which is really really interesting to note and you know that's awesome, that suggests that it's newer and better than what you know would be in a 3050 or 3060, now he did, Copight did go on to reconfirm the rumored codename for the SoC that we've heard before but just sort of throwing it back on there, when I say confirm, this is obviously just what he's putting out that none of this is technically confirmed and he said the T239 obviously isn't referred to as the T239 internally, they actually refer to it as Drake, now this is obviously not the codename for the Nintendo Switch to itself, but still pretty neat to just have this reconfirmed that hey it is actually called Drake, now what does this all mean, so what we've heard from Gamescom already sort of gives us an idea of the performance capabilities of what they are using and all this does is help explain how they might have actually pulled that off, the biggest concern here is obviously 8 nanometers for the die size, that pretty much means the first model of the system might not have good battery life, it might be closer to a steam deck, but what's notable is that the base Nintendo Switch back in 2017 that released on March 3rd also didn't really have that great a battery life, they would tout two and a half hours, oftentimes you'd get 90 minutes and that only really got better when they did a mid-gen die shrink for the Switch Lite and then the Switch OLED, so I would venture to guess that that's probably a similar route here, they will launch with this and it won't have the greatest battery life, but then you know by the time the Switch Lite or Switch 2 Lite, Switch 2 OLED, etc. comes around there will be a shrunken down version you know using a smaller processing node and then yeah they'll just be able to or manufacturing node I guess I should say in this case and yeah it'll just be able to be more power efficient and have better battery life, but for right now there is that, there's a lot of debate among people that know a ton about technology over on FAMI boards, they have a giant thread covering all of this stuff, there's a lot of debate over there whether this 8nm thing is true because a lot of people thought this would be 4nm, 4nm is more expensive to make so I could see them going with the 8nm process, like to put this in perspective the Ampere line of stuff is from 2020, so that does fall in line with Nintendo using a couple generations old tech, but then also because you know there's gonna be a 5000 series of GPUs right, so that also though it really opens up the door to these chips being much cheaper to get in 2023 than they were three years ago making this a much more affordable chipset for Nintendo for mass manufacturing, which could explain how they could release this thing at $399 or less, you know we obviously don't know the price at this point and then not feel like it's that far behind thanks to more modern core features from Nvidia such as DLSS, which we've already talked a lot about deep learning super sampling, not much more to say about it until the systems announced I think at this point, but also all this really did was confirm that they weren't using the cheapest version of Ampere, which many people assume they might not. This doesn't give us what the clock speeds are, how many cores there are, the memory, the memory bandwidth, like we have ideas on this stuff, but we don't have anything concrete because obviously it's not like we have the T239 to run benchmarks on right, like we don't really know, we don't have the software profiles that are on it letting us know what it runs at. So at this point, it's just a lot of guesswork based on this finite information. But I did want to put this other because it is, you know, interesting and slightly updated new information on the Nintendo Switch 2 SoC. I don't know if you guys found this fascinating, but I told you guys I would bring you any of this sort of stuff that is updated and specifically targeting something like the Nintendo Switch 2. I want to make sure you have the latest and greatest info on that. So let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. And if you want us to keep sort of deep diving and wading through the technology wave, as more and more details come out, because the closer this thing gets to release, closer it gets to be unveiled, the more we're going to know because dev kits are already out there. And as soon as someone wants to dissect one of those dev kits, and give the information to the right people, things are only going to get even crazier. In fact, there's actually somebody out there. I'm going to, I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave them nameless for now. But there's somebody out there in the Nintendo community that knows something about this platform, the Nintendo Switch 2, and is choosing not to share it. And that's apparently something pretty big. So I'm just gonna leave it at that. They did say that they really do expect this thing to leak before the end of the year, whatever this big thing is. So I guess we'll just have to be patient, folks. And you know what, Nintendo, you might as well announce the damn thing at this point, right? You got the director out of the way. I know, I know, I don't want to overshadow things. You know, holiday season coming up. I'm just saying, it's getting closer. I'll catch you guys in the next video.