Nintendo Switch 2 outperforms Xbox Series S in Street Fighter 6 due to DLSS implementation

The Nintendo Switch 2 launched with a plethora of the most popular multiplatform titles, including fan favorites such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6.
The latter crushed expectations with an excellent port that leveraged Nvidia’s DLSS implementation, outperforming the Xbox Series S in some scenarios. This is an impressive milestone for both Nintendo and Nvidia, and goes to show how powerful the Nintendo Switch 2 is.

Digital Foundry performed an in-depth analysis of Street Fighter 6’s Switch 2 port in terms of performance and visual fidelity. The console scales the game’s native 960x540 resolution to a much more respectable 1080p offering thanks to its DLSS implementation while keeping its frame rate within an acceptable sub-60fps range.

Nvidia’s AI-driven upscaling solution has matured considerably since its earlier implementations, delivering crisp image sharpness and stability without compromising one’s experience. The image quality is impressive to the point that it manages to edge out Microsoft’s Xbox Series S, which runs at native 1080p while using Capcom’s less effective upscaling tech.

The Switch 2 also benefits from improved texture quality compared to the Xbox Series S, rendering high-resolution textures for clothing, stage floors, and skin owing to the slightly greater 9GB of VRAM compared to the Series S’s 8GB. 
The Switch 2’s visual fidelity is closer to the PS4 version, missing out on a few eye-candy visual effects seen on the PS5. It might also benefit from what Nvidia has recently advertised: better texture compression and memory efficiency that make its newer DLSS offerings considerably more potent. 

The Switch 2 benefits from DLSS not only in Street Fighter 6 but also in third-party launch title, Cyberpunk 2077, which pushes the handheld to its limits. The game runs in a 30FPS Quality mode and 40FPS Performance mode, upscaled to 1080p, whether docked or handheld. Despite the aggressive upscaling in both docked and handheld, the texture quality is sharper than the Xbox Series S and similar to the PS5 version.

This just goes to show that the Switch 2’s custom Nvidia Tegra T239 chipset, with 48 Tensor and 48 RT cores, at least partially delivers on the promise of up to ten times the performance of the original Switch, largely in part due to its impressive DLSS-based gains.