Switch, as you’re probably aware of, is the next console from Nintendo which is set to launch early next year. Recently, more details about this new console have surfaced on the web via a noted Japanese journalist Zenji Nishikawa who wrote an article about the Nintendo Switch and its possible specifications on 4Gamer.

According to Zenji, Switch will likely be utilizing the Nvidia Pascal ‘Parker’ architecture for its GPU, instead of the next generation Volta. He also points out that the single-precision floating point performance of the Switch is going to be around 1 TFLOPS and there’s “no possibility” at all, according to the Japanese journalist, that Switch will go beyond 1.5 TFLOPS. That ultimately is down to the battery inside Nintendo’s next console. Meaning, we’re looking at around 900 GFLOPS to 1.2 TFLOPS of performance, to say at least.

Furthermore, Zenji notes that the Nintendo Switch itself could keep evolving with the advance of Tegra chip inside the platform. Basically, this is going to be just like what Sony did with the PS4 and PS4 Pro and Microsoft intends to do with the Xbox One and Project Scorpio.

What you can pretty much read between the lines is that as Nvidia releases next architecture over the next couple of years, let’s say as we move from Pascal to Volta, we could see another Switch which I guess wouldn’t be a hurdle for Nintendo afterall they are same folks who released multiple iterations of Gameboy and 3DS. Logically, we will see is more performance for the same battery life.

Just how accurate these reports are, is down to your own interpretation as always. Personally, I won’t be surprised if these come true because I don’t think they’re going to be utilizing an older architecture than Pascal due to its 20nm SOC and if you do some basic Math around 1 TFLOPS of SP floating point performance, it does make an awful lot of sense.