Nvidia's Shield Console -- A Hint At Nintendo's Fusion Future?

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Soundwave said:

forethought14 said:
The fact that it runs at max 20W at 512 GF @ $199.99 right now, makes Wii U's "efficiency" feel old and ancient. Well, their next console will probably run at 30-40W like Wii U, with likely 2014-2015 technology, so it'll likely be more powerful than this console thing if they take advantage of the headroom......hopefully....

According to Nvidia the full speced Tegra X1 runs at 10 watts and 1 TFLOP ... that's almost XBox One level and absolutely destroys the Wii U at a fraction of the power consumption. Crazy stuff. 

1 TFLOP at half-precision floating points. The X1 GPU clocks 1.2 TFLOPS at single-precision, 32-bit floating points.

The Tegra X1 would indeed be 512 GFLOPS next to the Xbox One GPU, or about 40% as good. With RAM as slow as the Geforce 7 or 8 series.

Sony used shenaningans like these to call the PS3 a 2 TFLOPS console.

On  practice the Tegra consoles will likely perform close to 7th generation consoles. Not 8th.

(A bit like the Wii U)