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Soundwave on 15 May 2016
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

It would have be a form factor closer to a mini-laptop, but it destroys an XBOne at full power (2.5 TFLOP vs. 1.2 TFLOP). 

You have to account for a difference in screen resolution too, rendering a game at 640x480 or 960x540 requires dramatically less processing power. You're reducing the pixels you need to render from 1080p or even 720p game down by 1/3 or 1/4.

That's not a handheld form factor. That's a mini-laptop form factor.

And no I don't. If it's running games at a lower resolution, it is not running games at XBO level. It doesn't matter what you're reducing. That's not "a handheld running XBO level graphics" which is what I was referring to. It's referring to this thread, which said that the NX has power close to the XBO. Great. That power is not happening on a handheld in 2017. That's like saying that Vita has power "close to PS3" because the games look so good. No, it doesn't.

It would have to be the form factor of say a Wii U tablet. Is that "hand held"?

Rendering at 720p or 1080p is pointless on a display that would be the size of 5-6 inches. On a 960x540 display, native Vita games look great, even streamed PS4 games look great, going for a higher resolution is just wasting horsepower.

The Vita can't run PS3 equivalent graphics at any resolution, something like a scaled down Polaris (at say 1/6th = 7 watts or so) would be able to actually run PC games like Far Cry 4 and Star Wars Battlefront straight up, it would just have to be at that reduced resolution and probably medium effects.