When the Nintendo Switch 2 was announced, many of us knew that NVIDIA had a hand in its creation but the gaming brand was elusive about the specifics of the hardware running it. Now, thanks to a well-known chip analyst, they’ve posted a dieshot of the chipset in question, labelled as a T239.
Now, the Switch 2 isn’t on sale yet but the chip analyst, who goes by the handle Kurnarl on X, managed to procure the alleged board that is being used in the handheld via a second hand market in China. It should also be noted that the board wasn’t a working unit, mostly likely a defective unit meant to be disposed but wasn’t. Sidebar: this isn’t the first time that the T239 has been mentioned. The very first time its existence was hinted, it was all the way back in 2021, and was posted by the reliable leakster, kopite7kimi. Also, based on the dieshot provided by Kurnarl, the chipset itself is a variation of NVIDIA’s T234, and has been modified especially for the console.
The world's first Nintendo Switch 2 Dieshot
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— Kurnal (@Kurnalsalts) May 7, 2025
Specs-wise, and seeing how it’s a modified T234, the T239 chipset is based on NVIDIA’s Ampere GPU architecture, which made its debut well over four years ago with the GeForce RTX 30 Series. Other details include two 6GB hynix LPDDR5 modules, capable of running frequencies of 8533MT/s although it’s likely to be slower on the Switch 2. The dieshot also indicates that chipset will feature eight ARM Cortex-A78C cores, 4MB of L2 Cache, and 1,536 CUDA cores. The die itself measures in at 207mm2, a little more than double the size of the Tegra X1 used in the current Switch.
Because of its defective nature, Kurnarl clearly wasn’t able to test it but did provide some speculation in the form of a laptop fitted with an RTX 2050, which he says it the T239’s equivalent. Basically, simulations suggests that the Switch 2 could deliver GTX 1050 Ti performance with DLSS, and GTX 750 Ti-levels in handheld mode.
Again, this is just speculation based parallel hardware, so until the console goes on sale and we start seeing reviews of it, you’d be better off taking this bit of news with the recommended grain of salt.
(Source: Kurnarl via YouTube, X, Videocardz)
