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Soundwave on 13 May 2016
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JEMC said:
Soundwave said:

I realize that but that's still pretty cool. The Polaris 11 is still targeted to ultra thin form factors, I think that's what Nintendo has chosen. It'll give them PS4 style performance with the possibility of portability too. New form factor is probably appealling to them too because it's new/different which always is something Nintendo craves.

It sounds more and more like the two design "wins" that AMD scored were for PS4Neo (Polaris 10 + x86?) and NX (Polaris 11 + ARM?).

If the recent rumors about Polaris 10 & 11 are true, Polaris 11 is still a 50W chip. I think that would be a bit too much for a handheld.

I think AMD has said under 50 watts for Polaris 11.

I could see it having two power modes ... full power mode when plugged in at home, and perhaps something that downclocks to 1/3 the power consumption for portable play (1920x1080 for home mode, perhaps 1024x600 for portable play?).

That would take it down to 16-ish watts, which a $30 10,000 MaH battery pack could power for 3-4 hours. Probable that Nintendo can push these power savings down even further too with their own customizations.

2.5 TFLOPS performance @ 50 watts would be highly attractive to Nintendo in and of itself too. Double the performance+ of an XBox One at 50 watts ... it's not PS4Neo, but for Nintendo that's not too damn shabby (I hope they don't go stupid again and go for a gimped chip instead). This is supposed to be a cheap chip too.