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Eeek thats really really weak. They expect this device to remain on the market until at least 2022 with those specs? Lmao



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think-man said:
Eeek thats really really weak. They expect this device to remain on the market until at least 2022 with those specs? Lmao

We dont know. Do they? You tell us...



COKTOE said:

Oh no if true.  540p, on a tv in 2017? :(

From 2017 -  2022 xD



25.6Gb/S 4gb ram, ouch, well that would blow anyone out of the water that thinks its going to be easy to port games lol




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Kowan said:
So that would mean the Skyrim on Switch will just be the normal Skyrim and not the remastered?

skyrim is not confirmed for switch. as far as we know it was just nintendo's way of showing they have third party support.

i call it potential false advertising



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think-man said:
COKTOE said:

Oh no if true.  540p, on a tv in 2017? :(

From 2017 -  2022 xD

Yeah. Even better. Seriously hope this is not the case. Doesn't the PS Vita upscale to 720p/1080i on PS TV? I mean, that's 2011 tech. I actually have a PS TV but have never used it.



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COKTOE said:

Oh no if true.  540p, on a tv in 2017? :(

When the Wii U manages 1080p in a few titles and 720p in the rest, this is a given false. 



The most important question remains unanswered... does it play UHD blurays?

We all know that's the most important thing for any console :D



Sh1nn said:
From Sebbi,he works at RedLynx (Trials series)

56 CUDA cores = 512 flop/cycle (multiply-adds, fp32). At 1 GHz this is 0.5 TFLOP/s. Main memory is 4 GB and bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s.

Xbox One GPU is 3x wider. 768 SIMD lanes = 1536 flop/cycle (multiply-adds, fp32). At 853 MHz this is 1.3 TFLOP/s. Main memory is 8 GB and bandwidth is 68 GB/s. Plus ESRAM of course.

Xbox One raw performance and bandwidth are both roughly 2.5x. Even if we assume that Nvidia's GPU is more efficient, we are looking at roughly 2x difference.

This comparison completely ignores the fast ESRAM memory on Xbox One. It will further increase Xbox One's bandwidth advantage. And Xbox One's main memory BW is already pretty low compared to 176 GB/s of PS4. Double rate 16 bit math will of course help the Nvidia GPU a bit, but this only increases ALU performance (in limited cases) and only helps in cases where you are not texture samping bound (2:1 ALU to TEX rate makes you easily TEX bound) or memory bandwidth bound (25.6 GB/s means that you often are BW bound).

If these specs are true, this console is not fast enough to run Xbox One 900p ports at reduced 720p resolution. Quality also needs to be slightly scaled down. But these are rumoured specs, hopefully the real specs are a bit higher. I would like to see a new Pascal based GPU.

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/nintendo-switch-hw-api-discussion.59709/page-3#post-1948968

One thing worth noting when it comes to the size and bandwith of RAM - this is a cutting edge nVidia product we're talking about and we're comparing it to old, old, old AMD tech. Watch vids comparing performance of Polaris and Pascal and take a look at RAM usage. Pascal GPU's use significantly less RAM to render the same scene (that's why they can get away with having 3GB@192bit bus vs AMD's 4GB@256bit bus). When Polaris uses 3.6 GB, Pascal uses 3 GB. They have superior tech when it comes to optimization and bandwith usage - and this is compared to Polaris, which is way ahead of the tech Xbone and PS4 are using. I know this won't bridge the whole gap, but let's keep that in mind, the gap will be smaller than what pure numbers indicate. Possibly around 4GB on Xbone/PS4 being equal to or less than 3GB on Switch.

Still, I hope that the console is more powerful than what we see in this thread.



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My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

Does anyone in their right mind expect 8th gen ports of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, Need for Speed and the next Tekken//Mortal Kombat/Soul Calibur to run just fine on the Switch? I thought the Wii U would teach some of you humility (and common sense).



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine