spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
I wouldn't say impossible but challenging for sure.
You would need at least 5 watts devoted to the chipset alone, and performance per watt would have to match what AMD is doing on Polaris 11 (50 GFLOPs/watt). If Nvidia can pull that off (or whoever), that brings you to 250 GFLOPS.
250 GFLOPS can be stretched pretty far if you running games at a low resolution ... 640x480 would be 1/6.75 the pixels of 1080p, 960x540 is 1/4. So that would be a fairly dramatic drop. You'd also have to cut effects down to medium or low settings (PC equivalent).
And your form factor would definitely not be a pocket handheld. 5 watts for the chip + 1-2 watts for the display/memory/modem/misc brings you up to about 7 watts, that would require a battery the size of an iPad (full-size) to get a tad over 3 1/2 hours of juice out of. Fortunately batteries aren't super expensive, unfortunately a battery like that would be huge.
It would have to be a tablet form factor and not one of those mini-tablets either. Something the size of a Wii U gamepad would probably be required. It would likely cost $250 at least, lets assume $40-$50 for a cheap 6-inch display + touch panel, $50 for the chipset, $50 for the memory, $10 for cheap FLASH, $20 for your battery, $60 misc electronics + plastic casing, $10 profit margin, $8 packaging/assembly. Probably would have to be sold for $269.99 or something.
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Improbable to the point of being unrealistic an not worth discussing. There's not a chance in hell mobile components are matching the XBO in real time power by next year. Get real. What you are describing is not an XBO-level handheld. An XBO level handheld would be outputting graphics nearly identical to the XBO at nearly the same clip and at the exact same resolution. That's not happening next year.
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Polaris 11 is not a mobile chip? :)
Nintendo wouldn't be able to do it because they don't use high end hardware anymore.
If Sony was still in the mobile picture ... that maybe would be a different story. They use the best hardware for the time usually.
