A complex leak may have revealed a substantial increase in memory for Nintendo Switch 2which could count on well 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storagethat is, a major change compared to the hardware of the current console, which would represent a notable evolution.
The question starts from afar, and was exposed on Famiboards, as reported later by some users on Reddit: the forum in question carried out a tracing of various data linked to the production of hardware by NVIDIAaccording to which a new chip model has emerged that would not correspond to those used in current Nintendo Switches.
As reported on the forum, the data collected seems to have led to the identifiers of the hardware contained in the various current console models, namely OLED, Lite, original and v2, but there is one that does not correspond to any of these, which could therefore refer to the mysterious Nintendo Switch 2.
A new chip that could be from Switch 2
In this research work, mentions of the Tegra T239 chip in testing from 2022 were found, as well as new development kits (Carpa X1), all elements that were cross-referenced to try to understand the movements of NVIDIA and Nintendo on the new console to be announced .
Based on this data collected, it seems that the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware has 12 GB of RAM, probably through the use of two 6 GB 7500 MT/s LPDDR5 modules, and could also count on 256 GB of storage space , through the use of Universal Flash Storage (UFS 3.1).
It is not the first time that there has been talk of the possibility of 12 GB of RAM for the new Nintendo console, given that a similar rumor had already emerged last September and the memory cut would in fact seem to correspond to some products developed by NVIDIA.
Considering that the current Nintendo Switch uses 4 GB of RAM, it is easy to understand how such an increase could lead to a notable evolution for the new console, at least as regards memory management. In any case, Nintendo has confirmed that it will talk about Switch 2 during this fiscal year, so we will certainly know more in the coming months.
