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

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haxxiy said:

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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)

The memory bandwidth seems to be the big difference, but Nintendo already uses eDRAM on the 3DS, the New 3DS has 10MB of eDRAM, rumored to run at 30-50GB/sec, which is actually fairly fast. 

Maybe a Fusion handheld with 2-3GB of normal low latency RAM + a eDRAM buffer of 24-32MB at 50-100GB/sec bandwidth wouldn't be out of the question. 

Unlike Nvidia's setup, Nintendo likely wouldn't just use a standard mobile RAM setup, so that would be one difference.