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JRPGfan on 15 May 2016
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FunFan said:
JRPGfan said:

Parker has a weird CPU setup.

It has 2 big ARM cores only (instead of the usual 4), and then 4 weaker ones (they run low power stuff, in the background).

It would mean games would have to run with only 2 arm cpu cores.

When all the multiplat games out there are learning to multi thread on 6-7 threads (8 core amd x86 from the xb1 & ps4).

It would make the handheld pretty weak in cpu terms.

Sounds a lot like the WiiU. You know, having a triple core with 1 more powereful core and two lesser ones. What did Iwata said again? Oh yes, "we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately." Also, theres nothing stopping Nvidia makin a custom design and this is Nintendo, history shows they only do custom (and weird).

I really hope that isnt true.

Its time to move past single and dual cores, and learn to multi thread stuff.

If nintendo goes with a single or dual core setup, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Id honestly be happier if they just stuck with a GPU from AMD (since the other two are, for multiplats),

and then just got AMD to hook it up to the latest ARM cpu design from arm they could, and do so on 16nm FinFETs.