@glacialbae

Hey Arlo, just a simple explanation of some of those numbers. The 8x and 4x in the CPU architecture section is just saying how many cores the CPU has. Basically, the Switch 2 had an 8 core processor instead of a 4 core, and so can be doing twice as many tasks simultaneously.

The CUDA Cores are just the number of cores that the GPU has. GPUs are designed to do a ton of simple computations all simultaneously, since that's what graphics processing requires. So the Switch 1's CPU had 4 cores that were all fast, and capable of a bunch of different types of operations. Its GPU, however, had 256 dumber, slower cores, but since it had 256 of them, it could be doing 256 operations all simultaneously. That's why GPUs are so helpful for certain operations. If you have a huge number of multiplications you need to do, for instance, rather than handing 4 or 8 of them to your Switch's CPU at a time, you can hand its GPU 256 multiplications at once, and get back those 256 answers very quickly. 

The Switch 2's GPU has 6x as many cores as the Switch 1's, which is a HUGE upgrade. This is why we don't see a huge difference in the clock speeds between the 2 GPUs: it just doesn't matter that much when compared to the number of cores. Yeah, the Swtich 2's GPU's cores are each only like 33% faster than the Switch 1's, but we have 6x as many of them. 

Hopefully that helps. :D

@0cellusDS

Summary: Some numbers are bigger than other numbers. And yet other numbers are quite similar to other numbers.

@KuroKitten

Arlo: "I don't know what any of this means!" - It's okay Arlo, I do, but what I need is an entertaining and pleasant sounding voice to read them off to me while I do dishes ^.^

@ryanmcmahon7805

This is literally the best technical breakdown of any console I've ever seen

@ToadyEN

Digital foundry deleted their video in shame after seeing this in depth overview 🤯

@gooifgeffpawkek

unironically one of the most intellectually honest hardware analysis videos out there

@napoleonfeanor

"I have no idea what the specs mean, but I will make a video about it"

@pkpyro2000

Me: Are the numbers . . . More?
Nintendo: Yes.
Me: Good good I like that

@DangHippiesPlease

I’m a software engineer who has been in industry for more than 2 years and I can confirm that everything Arlo said was 100% correct

@markusmanssen5624

This is the deep technical analysis we're all here for.

@Spatu10

A banalysis if you will, but not a bananalysis, that’s for Donkey Kong Bananza

@Tekno560

You said you had no idea what any of this meant, and yet still landed on the most correct conclusion possible at 10:08. I know a lot about computers since it’s my job and seeing people try to compare stuff and then the general audience taking it the wrong way since it wasn’t presented correctly has made me want to slam my head into a wall. Unironically, a very good summary video on the specs! 

Also, yes you were correct in saying the ghz/mhz is how fast it can go through one cycle. The number being bigger is better, but the main generation gap is the cpus/gpus being able to do much more in one cycle which is what the combo of how many cores and architecture (which is hard to explain but basically means what blueprint the device is based on and newer blueprints generally = better individual cores) somewhat tells us.

@carlitos366

i can confirm that 8 is twice as much as 4!

@BagMonster

If A Bad Analysis Starring Arlo is so good, why isn't there A Bad Analysis Starring Arlo 2?

@giuseppeconstantini2020

Arlo's the most relatable youtuber because this was basically my reaction reading this chart.

THE CUDA CORES?!?!?!

@persecuted4Him

This video was amazing!  Please definitely do this again, when the occasion arises.  You may not have intended it to be, but this was hilarious.  "Should I be doing this video?  I don't know, but you're still watching."  That made me laugh so hard as well as other lines.  As someone who understands all these numbers, this was fantastic to see as well as to hear your honest thoughts.  You remain my main source for Nintendo news/updates so I appreciated this content.  You were correct in comparing the bits line to Windows 64bit.

@Jomanuelrg

I love this channel so much man jajaja.

Greetings from México.

@nicksanchez8294

This was genuinely hilarious and I love it. Don’t feel bad about not knowing what these things do. I don’t either and this video was very enjoyable.

@BBB_bbb_BBB

All I'm hoping for with these bigger numbers is that the eshop can actually function.

@bmac6502

If you want the TLDR:
* A78C is a more modern design. It’s like AMD’s Jaguar CPU in PS4 vs. the Zen 2 in PS5. Newer ones do more work in the same number of clocks. In the case of A78C it’s about 3x more efficient than A57, so even though the CPU mhz is mostly the same each core is 3x faster, and there are 2x the cores, so CPU performance about 6x of Switch 1.
* Maxwell is the GTX 9xx series of GPU, Ampere is the RTX 30xx series of GPU. Ampere is a little more efficient but the big deal here is features, mainly ray tracing and machine learning (for the GameChat green screen and DLSS). That CUDA core number, and the GPU clock, is what tells the most about the performance.  It’s about 8x handheld and a little less than that docked.
* Like you said we all understand RAM. The oddity is definitely that they needed so much more reserved, though it’s not uncommon for consoles to reserve extra at first, and give some back later either because of optimization or because they had more features planned after launch and didn’t wind up needing all the extra.
* Less talked about here is the storage system. Switch 2 does have a next gen storage system similar to PS5 and Xbox Series, with hardware decompressors and fast SSD. It’s not as fast as PS5 but not too far behind XBox. Again, about 8x faster than Switch 1. So maybe not completely kill loading screens like PS5, but no more slow loading. It’s going to be very fast, short loading times, and a lot less pop-in.