Better and more powerful than the switch like the psp was much more powerful than the DS!. (Edit: Thanks everyone for your awesome comments i read all of them so i did changes to them model). PS Vita Pro Facing forward. PS Vita Pro Triggers. PS Vita Pro top view + Triggers. Comparison between PS Vita Slim and PSVita Pro size. Plus here some Actually when you add them together, PS Vita has more RAM than PS3 [the PS3 has 256MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256MB of GDDR3 video memory]." The speculation
One of Sony’s major selling points for the Vita was how powerful a system it was. While it was handheld, Sony aimed for it to operate somewhere between the PSP and PS3 in terms of power.
To be fair, the amount of Vita games that aren't also on PS3/4 isn't tremendously high, and a good number of the ones that aren't would be pretty tricky to emulate because of the use of both touch
On the other hand, few Vita game have left me with a want of too much more graphically other than MK, Resistance, or CoD. For the most part, the games look great. Even some of the games that really aren't anything to right home about are given something special with the OLED screen.
Ignoring the unique functionality of the Nintendo 3DS handhelds (such as the stereoscopic 3D displays), the PlayStation Vita is significantly more powerful than the rest (it's effectively a PlayStation "3.5" in your hands) with far more potential; but the Nintendo 3DS handhelds put everything else to shame with the size of their (games) library