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Soundwave on 10 September 2015
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JustBeingReal said:
Soundwave said:

Smartphones generally are not pushed to 5-6 watts/hour, things like browsing the internet or what people normally do on their phone eats up maybe 2-3 watts/hour. 

You want a battery more like the one in the iPad Air 2 -- 7000-8000+ mAh, then you can get a fairly high end level of gaming performance (PS3+/Wii U level) using a 14nm chip at 70 GFLOPS/watt. Or even better yet the monstrous 11,560 MaH battery from the 4th gen iPad. 

The battery isn't even that expensive, it's just that it's large. It would be very difficult to put that kind of battery into a 3DS XL form factor for now (maybe when you get to 10nm that becomes a possibility). But it would be workable in a tablet size casing for next year, of that I'm fairly sure. 


This level of performance isn't even remotely possible yet when using the comparisons between PS4 and XB1, dude you really need to stop using Flops to compare different company's technologies, it's a pointless comparison.

The various companies making different processing technologies do not use the same standard for measuring Floating Point Operations, so trying to compare Apple's tech to IBM or whoever else Nintendo may use for their processors makes your points about flops per watt moot.

Comparing like for like, like AMD's last generation to this one is way more fitting, TBH AMD are most likely who Nintendo are going to partner with for various reasons, mainly because they've been ATI/AMD partners on their GPU for years and a single SOC for everything processor related in your device makes manufacturing much simpler and cheaper.

Hell we even have AMD saying they've partnered with a company to make a processor for a new console and we know Nintendo are announcing NX next year, it may be a slight reach to say it's definitely AMD, but it's not a reach in the slightest to say that AMD are the most likely partner for this.


Pretty sure that is what AMD is aiming for with the 14nm FinFET process that starts next year. 

The Tegra X1 gets 500 GFLOPS at roughly 10 watts, but that's at 20nm, the rumor is they are moving to 14nm FinFET later this year, which will allow the X1 to be put into a mini-tablet form factor. 

The Power VR GT 7900 also gets 800 GFLOPS at about 10-12 watts and that's at 14nm/16nm. 

I think what Nintendo will be using will more akin to these new advances in mobile tech, not based on AMD's existing desktop/laptop processors. Those just don't have anywhere close to the power efficiency to reasonably power a portable, which is essential to the NX concept. 

IMO if AMD cannot give Nintendo similar performance/watt that Nvidia and PowerVR (Apple) is getting, then they've made a huge mistake in choosing AMD again.