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Soundwave on 14 May 2016
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se7en7thre3 said:
Soundwave said:

I dunno at this point SMD64 sounds like he's invested so much into the Polaris thing that he won't let it go easily, like he admits the portable could use Nvidia Tegra, but the console will still use Polaris. That's not happening with a unified platform, if the portable is using Nvidia Tegra tech then it's a virtual lock the console is just an upscaled version of that.

Pay attention to her words that she is using very carefully lol she's fighting a mini strawman. Emily's main objection is NX being a competitor to PS4k,  which motivated her to reply, that much is very clear.  The only little thing she mentioned in passing about OG PS4, was the NX gpu being double PS4 "power"but again, it could be weaker on paper and still out perform with polaris 11.  Also the way she speaks against x86 makes it seem like Arm.  Not that huge a deal. So why can't it be nvidia + arm for the portable, and amd + arm for the home?  

Also the tegra is  really only 512 gflops, sincethe 1 tf rating is on a FP16 scale when consoles go by FP32, so it is a marketing ploy.  It would still be a great next gen portable, and its safe to assume Ninty would further clock that down so more around 350-400 gflops if they use that tegra x1 chip.

Probably that's what it is. Scaled down Tegra X1 for the portable, scaled up Tegra X1 for the microconsole.

Though there are still problems even with that ... the Tegra X1 runs at 20 watts just to hit 500 gigaflops when gaming ... that's pretty hot, even if you scaled that down by half to 250 gigaflops ... 10 watts is quite a bit of electricity consumption for a portable, the thing would have be very large and have a huge battery.

The new iPad Pro 9.7 inch model has a 27 wH battery and that's a huge battery, a 10 watt chip + 1 watt for the display + misc power draw elsewhere would rip through that battery in about 2 hours.