We talk about the new Switch OLED model the only way we know how: browsing YouTube videos for low resolution teardowns and trying to look up part data sheets to try and figure out why Ethernet is so bad on the Switch.
Show Notes:
00:05:39 – OLED Display Concerns
00:21:53 – Ethernet Discourse
Jim Ryan is Wrong:
- Jim Ryan: “I would love a world where hundreds of millions enjoy our games”
- No, Jim Ryan – Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
Switch OLED:
- Display
- Uses PWM to control brightness, appears to go full throttle from 0-50% brightness
- OLED Switch uses PWM dimming below 50% brightness: NintendoSwitch
- Explanation on what PWM is
- iPhone 13 for context begins around from under 25% brightness
- OLED Switch uses PWM dimming below 50% brightness: NintendoSwitch
- Nintendo is shipping the display with a “vibrant” profile enabled out of box, burying the more color accurate “standard” mode in settings
- The OLED Nintendo Switch doesn’t have a Pentile screen
- Uses PWM to control brightness, appears to go full throttle from 0-50% brightness
- Ethernet:
- From this teardown it appears to be a gigabit port with a full ethernet controller
- However real world tests are showing far less than gigabit speeds
- Nintendo Switch Teardown
- Using the original Switch teardown as guidance and Nintendo’s never ending ability to be cheap as forecast, assuming the Switch OLED has the same USB controller
- PI3USB30532 (USB Switches)
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 5Gb/s Super Speed and DP 1.2 5.4Gb/s switching to USB Type C connector
- The Switch OLED dock per the teardown above has a HDMI 2.0 controller on the new dock
- HDMI 2.0 technically can cap out at 18Gb/s
- Which is almost 4x what the USB controller on the Switch itself supports for bandwidth on the USB and DP side (~10Gb/s theoretical)
- In theory this bottleneck could be causing the shit Ethernet Speeds
- However nintendo could just be nintendo and doing a nintendo
- MCDP2900 DisplayPort1.4a to HDMI2.0b Protocol Converter with HDCP2.3 Repeater
- Newer version of the HDMI to DP converter used on the dock board
- Switch 4K gaming could be added with new dock chip swap, AI upscaling
- A brief aside on the Nintendo Switch Wi-Fi
- Broadcom BCM4356 is the part used per the ifixit teardown
- ThinkPad Yoga 260
- ThinkPad L560
- I don’t really have more commentary than the fact that Nintendo is shipping wifi used in Windows laptops in a 2×2 config and it’s still absolute shit
- Broadcom BCM4356 is the part used per the ifixit teardown
- Using the original Switch teardown as guidance and Nintendo’s never ending ability to be cheap as forecast, assuming the Switch OLED has the same USB controller
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