According to the analysis by Eurogamer, the clock speeds for the GPU when are 768MHz when docked and 307.2MHz when undocked. To further emphasize my point, let's take a look at the one game we've actually seen running on the Switch natively-the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
The use of Tegra X1, which also powers the Nvidia Shield Android TV, means the graphics hardware inside the Switch is based on Nvidia's older second-generation Maxwell architecture, rather than the latest Pascal architecture.
The most intriguing piece of information to come out of the report, however, is the notion that developers will be able to choose which GPU clock their game runs at when the console is docked. Developers will likely not want to program two different versions of the game, so it's more like instead that it'll use this extra power when docked for variable resolutions and little more. Crucial questions central to how the system functions and how we'll experience it hang in the air during the run up to Nintendo's scheduled January 12 event.
Although it will also help to protect battery life on the Switch console, it may not bode well for game performance, even when the console is docked. On a positive note for Nintendo, it is said to have got the Tegra processors at a "low price" so that could help with the console's penetration. Neither will it make it anywhere near as powerful as the first-gen and consoles.
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Now this isn't to say that the Switch's specs from that devkit document are as absolute as it suggests. In other words, the Switch is 60 percent slower (from a GPU perspective) when undocked, which is a huge performance penalty. It was named as such because it has the components that can switch from a mobile console to a home console function. 2 GHz is reported to be the clock speed of the CPU.
In April Nintendo released one of the most disappointing sequels in company history, Star Fox Zero. That tells us another thing about Nintendo: it knows how to draw the most out of its systems.
For those who feast on numbers, the Nintendo Switch CPU is rated at 1020 MHz, which remains the same regardless of it being attached to the dock or not. When operating in a docked configuration, the Switch should be substantially stronger than the Wii U. From that perspective, and viewed relative to the rest of Nintendo's hardware, the Switch should be a unilateral improvement over both of its previous platforms.
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