| greenmedic88 said: I'm not going to bother cross checking this one. It's a nice Nintendo fan pipe dream to think that they'll be buying a console with a $300+ CPU (i7 quad core, 8 thread Skylake) and presumably a $300+ (more like $500+ if "near top of the line") GPU for under $400 (closer to $300 because this is Nintendo), but big fans are obligated to dream big. |
Skylake is a multi-purpose, jack-of-all-trades CPU that is built for multipurpose capabilities, its going to get bottlenecked hard on heavy gaming applications like polygon crunching vs. a specified (and not 300$) specialized design. Top of the line for gaming does not mean top of the line for general CPU designs, that's simply nonsense. (And same with the GPU, really, since its no longer constrained to seperate silicon and forced to have to deal with mobo bus bottlenecks.)
If anything, it just means that they have a very, very efficient and capable SoC under the hood for gaming/rendering and potent API solutions to make use of it in their demo (which is closed environment and rather unindicative over-all as it can be extremely optimized by being so closed off).
I also don't expect the NX to get an 11th hour supplex on its capabilities because of fabrication bugs and *Japan home* considerations.
