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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo Patent For Supplemental Computing Device Granted

Turkish on 22 August 2016

The supplemental device is the handheld portion of the console, which is a dock on which you put the handheld on to game on TV.

Meaning: higher clocked cpu and gpu, games probably have dynamic resolution, I guess 540p for the handheld and 720p/1080p when connected to the docking station.

So no more separate versions of games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros etc from now on



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Soundwave on 22 August 2016
TheLastStarFighter said:
Conina said:

I asked my mother and a stranger on the street. They both didn't know that*. So it is a fact, that not everyone knows that Wii U has 32 MB of edram.

 

* They also didn't know what edram is. Or what a Wii U is. ;)

lol.

My comment was to earlier remarks that Nintendo might include 24 megs in the NX.  If they go the edram route, I would think they would excede the 32 in the U.  A better option might just be a larger amount of faster, regular RAM.  Deves seem to like the PS4 setup better.

Neither are really plausible for a portable. 

50GB/sec is about the best you can get for standard memory in a mobile "console" which is well below the PS4. 

eDRAM is a possibility but it has trade offs, like it will eat into to your power consumption meaning the chip will have to use less power, eDRAM also eats up lots of die space which again limits hardware power. 

Probably the best setup Nintendo could do is 50GB/sec for the main RAM and using Nvidia's Tile-Based rendering setup try and get by with a small pool of eDRAM (10-16MB). 

You're looking at something likely limited to 5-7 watts in power consumption.