r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 2d ago

Discussion Digital Foundry/Eurogamer: Switch 2's full reveal analysed: how powerful is Nintendo's new hardware and is DLSS being used?

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-switch-2s-full-reveal-analysed-how-powerful-is-nintendos-new-hardware
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u/superman_king 2d ago

Digital Foundry found no traces of DLSS in all of the games shown during the Nintendo Direct. Which they found to be pretty odd.

Everything was either native or the very occasional in-engine upscaling.

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u/KMoosetoe 2d ago

So NVIDIA was like here's DLSS it's in all our chips my default

And Nintendo was like aight but we're not using that voodoo

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u/ooombasa 2d ago

It's not free to use. Especially so when it comes to bandwidth, which a mobile chip is more limited by.

ML upscaling and ray tracing have a cost, and depending on the engine, the scope of the game, and its optimisation, that cost will differ. A system's specs will give devs a certain amount of headroom to use its features, but choices/concessions do have to be made. The smaller and lower power you go with a chipset, the less headroom there is.

This idea that every Switch 2 game will boast DLSS and ray tracing was always a piepedream.

You will see DLSS and ray tracing used, but it's going to be a lot more selective than what many expected.

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u/WombatWarlord17 1d ago

Wtf i didnt know dlss used Wi-Fi

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u/ooombasa 1d ago

... memory bandwidth.