Nvidia has confirmed details about the Switch 2’s capabilities, including the use of DLSS and ray-tracing technology.

Nintendo highlighted a surprising amount of technical specifications during its Switch 2 Direct, but it still left some hanging questions around the console’s capabilities.

The company posted detailed specifications on its official website after the presentation, with the Switch 2 possessing a larger 7.9 inch LCD screen, HDR10 support, a variable refresh rate up to 120Hz, 256GB of storage, and a battery life comparable to the original console.

One area Nintendo is being vague about though, is the power of the Switch 2’s CPU/GPU, which it describes vaguely on its website as being a ‘custom processor made by Nvidia’. However, we now have a better idea thanks to a post from Nvidia itself.

In a blog on Nvidia’s website, it states the Switch 2’s custom-made processor features an Nvidia GPU ‘with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores’ for ‘AI-driven enhancements’.

According to Nvidia, the Tensor Cores ‘boost AI-powered graphics while keeping power consumption efficient’. The RT Cores, meanwhile, ‘bring real-time ray tracing’ and ‘enhance in-game realism with dynamic lighting’.

The post confirms the Switch 2 utilises Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), a technology which uses AI to upscale images from lower to higher resolutions. Nintendo also confirmed this in an interview with IGN, although it was somewhat vague about the minutiae behind it.