Episode 169: Cloud Save Discourse

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 https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7uv6m3/iphone_x_uses_pulse_width_modulation_which_is_a/dto2o9l/ iPhone 13 for context begins around from under 25% brightness 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 Ethernet: From this teardown it appears to be a gigabit port with a full ethernet controller Switch OLED Full Teardown! Dock Can Upscale?! OLED vs Switch vs Lite However real world tests are showing far less than gigabit speeds Switch OLED hardwired still has incredible bad and embarrassing speeds: NintendoSwitch https://twitter.com/llaffer2/status/1446587410700292109 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 2x2 config and it’s still absolute shit Contact: Cristian Online Sadiq Online Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS