Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

The record

Author: Richard Leadbetter
Type: Independent analysis
Tier: B: A high-quality independent analysis. Two agreeing tier B sources are needed to publish a figure.
Locator: Body text on the retail clock configuration, and the reproduced early developer specification table
Published: December 2016
Consulted: 2026-08-15
Address: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nintendo-switch-spec-analysis
Retrieved: 105361 bytes, SHA-256 1b064c1dfba66f2c… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.
License: Copyright Digital Foundry. Quoted here under short-extract fair use for verification of the figures cited.
Usage: Published three months before the console shipped and never contradicted by Nintendo, who has still published no frequency for this machine. The article distinguishes two things the catalog must keep apart: the clocks the writer states as confirmed for retail hardware, and a leaked developer specification table it reproduces and criticizes. Only the first is used for the clocks; the table is cited for the memory capacity, which the article treats as uncontested.