| onionberry said: just think about it, more power than the gpu of the ps4 and xbox one and less power consumption (something that Nintendo loves), amd is making the gpu for the nx and both polaris and nx are months away... do you need an official confirmation? Plus Nintendo's logo is red again. |
Although more power is always better... Nintendo Hasn't held the performance edge since the Nintendo 64, so don't get your hopes up thinking they will win this generation on performance merits alone.
| shikamaru317 said: I'm almost 100% certain it'll use a custom Polaris 11/Zen based APU. We pretty much know they're using AMD tech because of what AMD has said about their "design wins" and Nintendo would be dumb to release with outdated AMD tech when they're going up against PS4 and PS4K Neo. Only way it doesn't use Polaris/Zen is if Nintendo decided to go with ARM for unified console/handheld reasons, but honestly if they went with ARM the console is going to be quite weak, likely weaker than PS4, let alone PS4K Neo, possibly even weaker than XB1, which would not be a good position to be in if they want ports of current gen 3rd party games. |
Just because it might use ARM, doesn't mean it will be weak. The fastest ARM cores are faster than Jaguar.
| arthurchan35 said: Isnt it already clear that NX is an ARM CPU + latest AMD GPU? |
Nothing is clear. Only rumours.
I think there has been a general consensus that the mobile portion of NX will use ARM and the home console portion will use x86.
AMD has also done R&D that combined x86, ARM and GCN cores onto the same chip... So that is a possibility as well, the x86 and GCN cores could also be power gated and turned off completely when in a "mobile" mode, then turn on when stationed and connected to mains power.
| CosmicSex said: I struggle to understand how we can say we have a source more reliable than Emily. Some folks are setting themselves up for disaster if they want to believe internet rumors over official sources. Its utter madness. The Nx will not be more powerful than the PS4 but neither is the Xbox One and it gets plenty of 3rd party support. Its crazy to think that a random 'insider' has more knowledge yhan an actual employees. And making her out to be this pathological liar is really disturbing. |
If history (Xbox One) is anything to go by, having less Power than the Playstation 4 is setting yourself up for excessive ridicule that may affect sales, although I agree with you, it wouldn't be a wise move on Nintendo's part.
Also Microsoft has lost some 3rd party support this Generation already anyway.
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