 Hey everyone. Welcome back to another video. This is a special weekend edition. We have some slightly new news for you. It's still kind of based on a rumor, but it has to do with, I don't want to necessarily say Switch Pro, but it's either like for a Pro or for a Next Gen Switch. I'm not really sure which way I'm leaning on this. It could be specifically for Next Gen, but we're going to talk about this because it comes from a person who isn't your everyday, you know, quote unquote, leaker. Isn't somebody who has any sort of agenda or bias or any reason to put information out there other than just having access and wanting to let people know what's upcoming specifically from NVIDIA. So we're going to get into some very technical details here. I'm going to try to, you know, not make this sound super unrealistic or anything like that because it's going to sound unrealistic at first, but we'll explain why it's not as we go here. And I'm actually a neogaph for this one because there was a few posts in response to some of this news that I want to get into. Before we jump into this though, however, I got to remind you we are giving away two copies of Skyward Sword HD. If you would like to enter to win, head down to the description to find out how. All right, so this again comes from Copight7KIMI. He is a, I mean at this point, is close to a verified NVIDIA leaker as there can be. He's leaked so much from NVIDIA over the years from die shots to exact details about the ampere cards and a whole bunch of NVIDIA stuff over the years. He's not someone who has ever participated in any sort of wars between AMD and NVIDIA. He's never participated in any sort of caring what systems are going to be. He doesn't care if systems are going to be successful, certain chipsets are going to be successful. He's never really gotten involved in anything that us gamers tend to argue about. He just factually throws out information and just leaves it at that. And back on June 10th, he did put out a tweet saying that this is a preliminary picture of a T234 on Wikipedia. And he said, you know, this is actually very, very clear if you've taken any sort of research into the T234, which is an Oren chip. So why do we always have to guess? And he said that Nintendo is going to use a customized one, which internally is being known as the T239. And this T234 has 2048 CUDA cores with 16 shader blocks with 128 cores per block plus cache and an interconnect. And then obviously the 12 core ARM Cortex A78 AE Hercules chip. So you got information on the GPU and CPU. And those kind of specs are pretty insane for a switch. They're already pretty insane, even just throwing that out there as comparable to like a PlayStation 5 or a Xbox Series X. I mean, these specs are top tier stuff. But got to remember that Nintendo is using a customized one. So it's not going to have 12 cores. It's not going to have, you know, 2000 plus CUDA cores and all that for the GPU. That's unrealistic. Not really affordable. It's going to be a cutback version of this clearly, because if it was this, we're talking about a $600 to $700 switch. And that doesn't make any sense. Now, Popeye recently responded a couple days ago. And he responded with the code name for the switch variant called Black Knight. Now Black Knight actually falls right in line with all of the previous code names for Switch chips because all of them have been based on superheroes and all of that. As the original poster here, NeoGap notes says Black Knight does fit with Nvidia's naming scheme considering the code name for all of the automated SOCs are named after fictional superheroes in the DC Comics, Xavier and Orin. While the code names of all the mobile SOCs after the Tegra 4 are named after superheroes in the Marvel Comics, Logan, Arista, Mariko, Parker and now Black Knight. So yeah, the naming that he put out there obviously fits right in with the traditional naming conventions used for their mobile versions of their chips. So this looks really legit. And again, this isn't some guy who is a rumor monger author. This isn't some guy that cares about wars or our feelings and how upset you want to be. Oh, the Switch Pro isn't real. Oh, Nintendo's not working on next-gen hardware, which is really stupid to even say that because Nintendo has stated from 2019 on forward, their CEO has repeatedly said they're always working on new hardware. So like they're always working on something. And he just said earlier this year that they're still working on something. So like factually, Nintendo's working on new hardware, whether it's the Switch Pro or next-gen. Doesn't matter what, they're working on something. So yeah, let's just give credit where credit's due here. This could be something Nintendo's using or possibly looking into. And again, Copight has been completely correct in the past. He was the one that gave us the Mariko chip before we even knew it was the Mariko chip. He told us all the details about this back in the OG Switch about the cut-down or I should say the slimmed, it's not really cut-down. When they redesigned it again for the light and the version 2 of Switch, he also gave us all the details on that. And he's given us details obviously in the 3000 series graphics cards. And everyone's like, this can't be possible because this chip sounds like a 3050, which yeah, is a really, really powerful car. There's no way in heck the Switch would have that. Well, of course the Switch isn't going to have a damn 3050. Well, let's talk about the legitimacy of this person just to see you understand why we're talking about him. This isn't like your Samus Hunters or some of this guy's been at it for a hell of a long time. And as someone put out here in this thread, you know, a Voltaic Ark angle here put out on the thread, except for anyone doubting Copight 7 Kimmy's creds just don't. He isn't some, you know, chronicle insider who just posts things up as FUD with an agenda against some console manufacturer because his feelings were hurt. And they felt that the internet was one-sided on social media about a game console or some two-bit hack like Moore's Law is dead pretending to be an insider to get those clickbait views for ad revenue by regurgitating Captain Obvious Info, educated guesses that are on the internet, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Linus Tech Tip forums, growing bigger to actually have industry people leak info with these kinds of hacks. He's Copight 7 Kimmy along with a few others like Tom underscore Appysack on Twitter are legit as it can get. They only share credible info unlike the fake clickbaiting Muppets above in my post and their Copight 7 Kimmy and Tom underscore Appysack track records are almost 100% correct. Never had a leak wrong. This is the single reason why like literally all tech YouTube channels and websites, including the only PC gamer and all that quote these two Twitter IDs when it comes to rumors. If I can remember correctly, either Appysack or Copight leaked the PlayStation 5 SOC layout but without the die shot codenamed AMD Gonzalo way before Sony's announcement and even the AMD SmartShift implementation that bumps the clocks higher to reach a theoretical peak of 10.3 teraflops. These guys are the real deal when it comes to hardware leaks from the semiconductor industry. Whether this SOC will be straight up loaded onto the Switch Pro or a cut down variant will be used is debatable and that's for us to wait and see. Going with the ladder, going by Nintendo's antics in the industry and the profit margins on hardware using a low BOM for now until it's announced so I don't really get disappointed in expecting more. So what he's saying is obviously it's just an opinion that you should expect Nintendo to use a cut back version which I think is pretty reasonable. Remember Nintendo right now on the current Switch only uses like four CPU cores and like hardly, I mean the CUDA core count on a 2015 chip is not very high. So I think realistic expectations if they're going to use this chip or use the cut back version which means they're not going to be using the full capabilities. They're going to be able to get a lot of the die runoffs that end up not meeting spec. I feel like you know anything between you know I'd say six to eight cores instead of the 12 I think is more realistic here and obviously we're talking about better CPU cores already so even if they just went with four cores these are four better faster more efficient cores already than what's in Switch but I would suspect if you have a 12 core capable chip and you're using a cut back version that maybe you'd cut back to you know six maybe maybe eight you can cut back half the cores or maybe go to eight and then obviously in terms of the the GPU I'm expecting at least a 50 percent cut right you know if it's 2048 you know CUDA cores then I expect 1024 max CUDA cores so I do think there's a very very low chance they're going to use the full capabilities of the T239 or now known as Black Knight chip or at least the original too because like well because no matter what what Colpite said you know if you go back to just his own words forget what other people are saying about it you know his own words are pretty clear and and concise the die shot that's our Wikipedia is over T234 Nvidia is using a customized version of that so like this die shot with the 12 cores and the 2000 plus CUDA cores like yeah that is of a chip that Nintendo is basing or at least Nvidia and Nintendo is basing a mobile version off of but it's not going to be that exact one they're going to use a cut back version or he doesn't use cut back he says customize but that's really what customize means is that they're going to take that chip and they're going to they're going to remove aspects of it to make it cheaper for manufacturing and make it more affordable this obviously by the way if this is going in a switch pro which I mean it's hard for me to fathom that this is anything but next gen we're talking about an orange chip guys we're talking about a top of the line chipset like today's technology I can't imagine that's for anything other than a switch too but if this is somehow what the hell is going into a switch pro means which pros at least 400 right it has to be has to be at least $400 if not more and that to me I'm okay with you know I'm okay with them charging five they give me this they'll be 12 cores and 2000 plus she I'll pay 500 600 700 bucks for a switch pro but I don't know that a lot of other people would so I do think they're going to use the cut back version that ends up making it more affordable I just wonder is it going to end up being for a pro or is it going to be for next gen and if they it's going to be for next gen when is next gen coming because obviously if they're using this is today's technology if they're going to use this but then they're not going to release it for say you know three years let's say in the national 2023 2024 well it's going to be the similar situation to today see when we got this in 2017 it was using a chip that was two to three years old right the tag or x1 was two to three years old and if they're going to use this in a future switch in a next gen switch it's exciting but it's also going to be two to three years old again and find itself in a similar situation to this where while it's a nice bump over this it's still not really where current technology is at that time and that's one reason why I also believe that is is for next gen because it would make more sense to use today's technology in a future next gen switch because that's just nintendo's mo they'll use the latest and greatest day one uh although could this be in a pro we can't dismiss it because kobe isn't telling us what this is going to be um you know he doesn't even say that this is specifically you know he says nintendo will use a customized one he's not specifying a customized one for the pro or a customized one for next gen he's not specified he's just saying this is what I know okay I know nintendo is using this chipset in some form somewhere they're using a cutback version or a customized version of it and they're calling that customized version black knight now we'll have to wait and see what happens we'll have to wait and see if it comes up in the firmware in the future we'll have well we'll just have to wait and see we're in wait and see mode right now again I know some of you guys are very very sick of switch pro this switch pro that next gen switch that we know nintendo's working on new hardware irregardless of our personal opinions on if pro is real if those leakers are are legit doesn't matter nintendo themselves told us they're working on new hardware they've told us multiple times over the last two years they're working on new hardware does it mean it's a pro could just be for next gen nintendo's always working on new hardware by the way from the moment this thing was released they were already working on what was next okay nintendo's always working on hardware so this appears to be a chip they're using in something in some form at some point in the future whether that's the pro or whether that is next gen either way it's exciting for now we'll have to see how exciting it is if it's technically for next gen and we have to wait two to three years maybe it won't be as exciting then i have no idea but for right now it's it's exciting to think of the possibilities of the ship especially if it isn't intended for a pro uh that would be really impressive of nintendo i i honestly would be giving nintendo a standing applause at this point if this was for a pro because that is that's impressive um that that means nintendo's not holding back but i i think nintendo's still gonna hold back for a pricing reason so anyways here's what we know you think about this down in the comments below and i just want to end this by saying how about them bucks maybe uh i don't know you can't tell this is just like a a front of a buck sure but um you gotta see this little 21 there's a drew holiday buck shirt shout out to drew holiday hell of a game put the clamps on trey young and then drop 22 himself barely even playing like 30 minutes because the bucks blew them out it was awesome well the wait and see what happens in atlanta of course because hey atlanta got what they wanted they got one win in walkie now the bucks gotta return and at least get one win back so we'll see what happens but thank you guys so much for tuning in i am the thunder of the jats from nintendo prime hopefully you enjoyed this nice little weekend video uh and it will get too mad at me for like bringing up pro and bringing up next gen like we factually know something's happening and this is apparently appears to be very close to what we're getting in some form in the future so let me know your thoughts link to this thread uh down in the description thank you guys for tuning in and i'll catch you in the next video