Polaris 11 honestly sounds pretty awesome for Nintendo.
2.5TFLOP is a beefy jump from the standard PS4 (more than the XB1-PS4 gap) and Polaris architecture is also better than what the PS4/XB1 had so there would be further improvements.
It should allow basically any PS4 port to run at 1080p at almost 1/3 the power consumption.
And a "portable mode" where the system maybe reduces to 1/2 the compute units for portable play would also be very interesting.
I could see Nintendo netting further power savings perhaps by using a custom memory layout, like say maybe 8GB LPDDR4 RAM + a small pool of high speed HBM RAM ... Nintendo loves their embedded RAM, even though HBM is expensive right now, a small amount of it might be workable. And it could act like eDRAM acts on the Wii U, or maybe they could just use eDRAM itself.
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