Topic: Read speed and draw distance

Does memory read speed affect draw distance and pop-in in games? For example: Does playing BOTW from the Switch 2 game cartridge reduce draw distance in comparison to playing the game from the Switch 2's internal memory?

BOTW no, on console no. On PC not really, it is impacted by the draw distance/LOD settings and on a slow hard drive it could mean textures not loading in quickly enough if it was set too high for the hardware, but still not really, there would likely just be geometry drawn in with missing textures.