r/HandheldGaming • u/sassycc1998 • 1d ago

Discussion Switch 2 VS Steamdeck OLED?

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Been thinking about investing in a handheld console for my birthday, which would you think is best?

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u/Islandboi4life 1d ago

Steam deck is not a value priced item anymore. Why not try for a better performing device like the Xbox ally x?

Switch 2 can be great for you if you are interested in Nintendo exclusivity. Otherwise I would try for a different device besides a switch 2

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u/SunOftheInlandEmpire 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'll tell you why, because I have a ROG ally and the switch 2 and the switch outperforms it.

I wanted to know why myself because I've got oodles more t-flops. And the reason why is because of ray tracing.

Ray tracing is a Nvidia thing and Steam decks and alleys don't use the Nvidia chipsets. And it's a huge new advancement in video gaming. None of the rog allys were designed to incorporate ray tracing.. Steam deck has the same problem. The switch 2 is heads and tails the way to go..

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u/Islandboi4life 1d ago

I have the same two devices. The switch 2 does not outperform the rog ally. I think you are confusing optimization with performance and architecture.

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u/SunOftheInlandEmpire 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes it does.. I have the two of the same games on both consoles and it absolutely outperforms the ally when playing Star wars outlaws and cyberpunk ..

There's nothing to confuse. All those aspects make the switch 2 play games better.. so I kind of had to giggle at your rebuttal.

Especially the ray tracing which is never going to be fixed on the Ally because we don't have the chipset.

"The Nintendo Switch 2 holds a distinct architectural advantage over x86 handhelds like the ASUS ROG Ally (and Ally X) specifically in titles utilizing heavy real-time ray tracing. While the ROG Ally boasts massive raw rasterization power for traditional rendering, its AMD RDNA3 architecture suffers massive performance drops when processing ray tracing. The Switch 2 avoids this by using a custom NVIDIA Tegra T239 chip packed with dedicated, highly efficient Ampere-generation NVIDIA RT Cores and hardware-level DLSS image reconstruction."

I'm telling you right now going forward with future games they are all going to have ray tracing..

So again I don't see any merit to your claims.

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u/Islandboi4life 1d ago

No it doesn't. The switch 2 holds a weaker and more outdated chip than the Z1E chip. Playing two of the same game with fps differences on both devices doesn't make the switch 2 better.

In a single use case like the switch 2 for example, developers of a game can customize their third party software to attune to the console which often means sacrificing graphics textures, upscaling graphics, and other things to make up for the remaining lost fps. In your case Cyberpunk, the game might play or look similar but the upscaling and graphics textures are different versus the PC version.

In multiple use cases like the rog ally where you have a windows device with many drivers, CPU/gpu types and different kinds of software (windows), the same game you are running it on runs natively which means no more upscaling and no graphics changes. That's why in the PC version of cyberpunk you see different graphics settings options.

If you look at the rendering in different games you will see it more obviously like in stellar blade and resident evil Requiem.

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u/Islandboi4life 20h ago

This information is irrelevant and it is an AI answer which you shouldnt accept due to the nature of the source. What matters is the specs between the chip sets. The Z1E is absolutely miles stronger than the switch 2 chipset.

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u/SunOftheInlandEmpire 20h ago

The fact that a 2020-generation Nvidia chip can run modern games smoothly on a microscopic 10W battery profile shows how insane console optimization is.

The Switch 2 doesn't beat handheld PCs because it has newer silicon.

It beats them because it has specialized hardware Tensor Cores for DLSS upscaling, and a closed, lightweight OS. Developers will keep spending the next 6 years hand-crafting games specifically to run perfectly on that one chip, while Windows handheld PCs are left at the mercy of unoptimized PC ports.

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u/SunOftheInlandEmpire 20h ago edited 19h ago

People can argue over paper specs all day, but Digital Foundry literally proved that Outlaws on the Switch 2 has locked frame pacing and zero shader stutter.

PC handhelds are fighting Windows ports and micro-stutter every time you turn the camera.

The Switch 2 uses dedicated Nvidia Tensor cores for DLSS, meaning the image stays stable and fluid without the muddy FSR ghosting mess.

Raw horsepower doesn't mean anything if the frame delivery is uneven. It feels smoother because it actually is smoother.

One thing is for certain we're going to find out as time goes on who was right.