Nvidia confirms the Nintendo Switch 2 has DLSS and real-time ray tracing

Nintendo’s Switch 2 tech specs yesterday vaguely said that the console is powered by a “custom processor made by Nvidia,” but successful a caller blog post, Nvidia has shared a small much detail astir however it’s powering the device.

Nvidia says that its spot enables DLSS enactment connected the Nintendo Switch 2, allowing the console to upscale games and supply amended performance, overmuch similar however DLSS powers Nvidia’s desktop and laptop GPUs. Nvidia doesn’t notation which mentation of DLSS volition beryllium supported connected the Switch 2, nor whether determination volition beryllium immoderate framework procreation capabilities.

The Nvidia GPU wrong the Switch 2 besides has “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores,” according to Nvidia. These RT cores volition present real-time ray tracing connected the Switch 2, with the committedness of “lifelike lighting, reflections, and shadows for much immersive worlds. The Tensor Cores volition “enable AI-powered look tracking and inheritance removal successful video chat usage cases, enhancing societal gaming and streaming.”

Nvidia besides says that the console has “10x the graphics show of the Nintendo Switch,” which is simply a show assertion that’s astir surely related to the usage of DLSS. The Switch 2’s adaptable refresh complaint successful handheld mode is besides powered by Nvidia G-Sync technology.

Nintendo, from the outset of moving connected the Switch 2, wanted to amended its powerfulness implicit the archetypal Switch, according to an “Ask the Developer” interrogation published yesterday. The institution says that its improved show enables things similar letting you destruct “anything you want” successful Donkey Kong Bananza “without restrictions” and the seamlessly-connected courses successful Mario Kart World.

The Switch 2 launches on June 5th. It volition commencement astatine $449.99.