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Who is making the NX GPU

nVida 187 41.19%
 
AMD 210 46.26%
 
Silicon Graphics Inc 16 3.52%
 
Sony (the power of the Cell!!!) 41 9.03%
 
Total:454
Soundwave on 16 August 2016
Miyamotoo said:
Loking at this poll its seems lotsa people missed Eurogamer article about NX that later was confirmed buy multiple reliable sites.

So we have Eurogamers infos that saying NX is using Nvidia X1 chip, also those Eurogamer infos are confirmed by multiple reliable sites.
On other hand nothing point that NX using AMD, so at this point its almost certain NX will have Nvidia chip.

Eurogamer, IGN, MCV, Wall-Street Journal, and Emily Rogers are all confirming the same thing basically. 

There is no reliable source pointing to AMD other than SuperMetalDave's wishful thinking. 

Again not even sure why AMD is held is such high esteem ... Nvidia products pretty much always benchmark higher from what I've seen. 



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Qwark on 16 August 2016

Probably AMD, don't forget that Nvidia doesn't have shown much intrest to be GPU provider for either the Xone or PS4 due to the margins being too small.



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AZWification on 16 August 2016

Isn't that Eurogamer rumor pretty much confirmed at this point?



                
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Soundwave on 16 August 2016
Qwark said:
Probably AMD, don't forget that Nvidia doesn't have shown much intrest to be GPU provider for either the Xone or PS4 due to the margins being too small.

NX is a hybrid console, a mobile processor is neccessary for this, Nvidia has Tegra .... AMD has jack shit in that regard (Mullins ... I guess which they're not even working on). 

Again too from everything I've seen Nvidia simply makes better products than AMD. 



Luke888 on 16 August 2016

AMD, Nvidia will provide it for the handheld only if Nintendo doesn't go down the hybrid route



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Soundwave on 16 August 2016

Again not even sure why people think AMD is good. Nvidia makes better GPUs flat out, the only reason Sony/MS use AMD is because AMD is willing to give them their shoddier tech for cheap.

But Nintendo likely is scoring a sweet deal for the Tegra technology since Nvidia hasn't found other takers for it (no one needs a tablet that powerful and autonomous cars is a niche market for another 3-4 years at least). So that likely isn't an issue either.



Qwark on 16 August 2016
Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:
Loking at this poll its seems lotsa people missed Eurogamer article about NX that later was confirmed buy multiple reliable sites.

So we have Eurogamers infos that saying NX is using Nvidia X1 chip, also those Eurogamer infos are confirmed by multiple reliable sites.
On other hand nothing point that NX using AMD, so at this point its almost certain NX will have Nvidia chip.

Eurogamer, IGN, MCV, Wall-Street Journal, and Emily Rogers are all confirming the same thing basically. 

There is no reliable source pointing to AMD other than SuperMetalDave's wishful thinking. 

Again not even sure why AMD is held is such high esteem ... Nvidia products pretty much always benchmark higher from what I've seen. 

AMD delivers good GPU's but terrible drivers for windows, they score better lately. Anyways PC benchmarks for graphical cards don't equal those  on console, mainly due to the dedicated API. Besides graphical cards are more than flops.



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Ljink96 on 16 August 2016

With the recent leak of Kingdom Hearts 3 and Dragon Quest 11, which both run on Unreal 4, it really is a tossup. Nvidia's Tegra chip, from K1-X2(presumably) can run Unreal 4. AMD of course can do this as well. We really cant tell.



Soundwave on 16 August 2016
shikamaru317 said:
Considering Nvidia seems to be moving away from mobile gaming and didn't mention anything about a semi-custom design win in their latest investor call, I think if the Eurogamer report was accurate, Tegra is just a placeholder. What the final chip will be, I don't know. I would think going with AMD would make porting PS4/XB1 games to NX easier, but of course NX will need the specs to handle those games, even if the resolution has to be reduced to 720p or lower for some games.

Sure the Tegra in the NX dev kit may be a placeholder for the Tegra X2. 

It would make zero sense for it to be there if they're using AMD, beyond that if they are using a Tegra, that basically means they are using mobile components and AMD is way behind Nvidia on that front. 



Soundwave on 16 August 2016
Qwark said:
Soundwave said:

Eurogamer, IGN, MCV, Wall-Street Journal, and Emily Rogers are all confirming the same thing basically. 

There is no reliable source pointing to AMD other than SuperMetalDave's wishful thinking. 

Again not even sure why AMD is held is such high esteem ... Nvidia products pretty much always benchmark higher from what I've seen. 

AMD delivers good GPU's but terrible drivers for windows, they score better lately. Anyways PC benchmarks for graphical cards don't equal those  on console, mainly due to the dedicated API. Besides graphical cards are more than flops.

Nvidia being a much bigger company that's much more successful likely also flat out has better engineers. 

Other discussions I've seen on NeoGaf are interesting too, like the tiling aspect of Nvidia's tech (Pascal) could allow Nintendo to use much less embedded DRAM or other kind of high speed RAM. Right now they need to use a big chunk with AMD (32MB on Wii U), on Nvidia perhaps its possible they can get something similar performance wise with much less eDRAM, which would free up a lot of die space which is vitally important for hardware power. 

For a hybrid device that needs to run fairly high-end-ish video games, that alone could be a game breaker for Nintendo. Bandwidth is one of the key issues with mobile chips.