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Soundwave said:
Teeqoz said:


It's easily doable, of course, but Nintendo doesn't want to make a ridiculously overpriced handheld. How many Gflops does the 3DS have again? Isn't it like 5? that would mean a 50-60x increase versus the 3DS to have Wii U like power. That just doesn't seem likely. 


Mobile chips are cheap, the PowerVR GT7900 is designed for cheap mini-consoles and is a mobile processor ... it outputs a whopping 800 GFLOPS. The Tegra X1 Shield console is only $200 sold at a fat profit with 3GB RAM. 

 

 

The 7900 is ment for notebooks that probably use 35watts+.

So while its a mobile chip... its not really ment for a small handheld.

Still its probably better performance/watt than the Tegra X1 that is around 512 GFLOPs and uses 20watts to do so.