After the release of a new generation of handhelds such as ROG Ally, the Nintendo Switch, released in 2017, was clearly at a disadvantage. However, some foreign players have successfully overclocked the Nintendo Switch, unleashing all the power of its onboard chip, and even running various games on platforms such as PC, Android and Linux.
Due to the problem of handheld battery life, the Tegra X1 chip of the Nintendo Switch is not fully on by default. Geekerwan by overclocking and modifying the Switch,
The Nintendo Switch itself cannot be overclocked unless modified by a specific method that ultimately overclocks the Tegra X1's CPU frequency from 1Ghz to 2.3Ghz, and the GPU frequency from 768MHz to 1.267GHz, a speed increase of more than 60%.
After overclocking, 3Dmark's performance has been greatly improved, and its maximum performance has been close to that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. However, because of the CPU performance span, the maximum frame rate cannot exceed 30FPS when running the Android version of Genshin.
Later, players also installed Linux on the Switch and managed to run PC games, and surprisingly, games such as GTA5, Devil May Cry 5, and God of War could be loaded, but the game frame rate could not exceed 10FPS.
