Data mining could have leaked the Nintendo Switch 2’s computing power in teraflops. According to Famiboards user Zachy, undocked or handheld mode will have a GPU clock speed of 561 MHz, which is 1.71 TFLOPS. In docked mode, the GPU clock speed almost doubles to 1000 MHz, which is about 3.1 TFLOPS.

That’s a quarter of the 12 TFLOPS of the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU that launched in 2021. However, since the RTX 3060 is a desktop GPU, it’s not a direct comparison. A better comparison is Microsoft’s Xbox Series S console. It has been said that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be less powerful than the Xbox Series S, and in fact the leaked TFLOPS data supports this theory as the Series S has a processing power of 4 TFLOPS. That’s not a huge difference, however, and third-party game developers will undoubtedly use their Xbox Series S configurations as starting targets for their ports to Nintendo’s new console.

The Nintendo Switch 2, powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 239 SoC (with an eight-core CPU and an Ampere-based GPU with 2048 CUDA cores), has one advantage over the Xbox Series S: its rumored native support for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and ray reconstruction technology. While the latter may not prove very useful as developers don’t want to spend meager GPU performance on ray tracing effects, DLSS SR will indeed be invaluable in raising performance to acceptable standards.

At this point, new leaks and rumors about the new Nintendo console appear almost every day. The Japanese game developer and console maker has promised to reveal the hardware (which is proven to offer backwards compatibility with existing Switch games and instant access to a very large library) before the end of March, when Nintendo’s fiscal year ends.