haxxiy said:
The newer Iris Pro and Carizo graphic solutions are much better than PowerVR and Tegra, though. At best the 14/16nm graphic solutions of mobile chip manufactures will match something like the Geforce 700M, or the first generation TeraScale chips. There is no miracle here. Either way, the NX probably won't be that powerful if Nintendo opts for an APU solution like I expect them to. Mostly because AMD will release only 28nm APUs in 2016, with no Zen CPUs yet, which will be similar (15-20% more efficient at best) to the designs inside the X1 or the PS4...
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I'd just sign with PowerVR (with ARM CPU) to be honest. There was a rumor about a year ago that Nintendo from acccepting hardware pitches from PowerVR/Imagination in addition to AMD.
Very, very hard to beat 800 GFLOPS at only 6 watts or so. That's insane. Put some high speed eDRAM in a custom design on that sucker and you have a pretty nice chip for Nintendo and one that scan scale up and down to portable and home version as needed.
It's also apparently very cheap, PowerVR operates in huge volume because they supply Apple for the iPhone/iPad, likely they can give Nintendo a price even AMD can't beat.