Emily Rogers: NX not gonna use X86 architecture, raw power close to XBO

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spemanig said:

Soundwave said:

OK Captain Semantics.

A portable device that you hold in your hands (as opposed to your genitals) that's the size of a Wii U game pad would be capable of running games XBox One games like Star Wars Battlefront, Call of Duty, FIFA, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed etc. on a 5-6 inch display where 720p or 1080p rendering would be overkill and as such 960x540 resolution or less would be acceptable.

That's possible. Unlikely for Nintendo since they don't care much for cutting edge technology. If Sony was making a tablet ... oh hell yeah. They'd totally go for it.

tldr

A handheld with power similar to the XBO isn't happening by 2017.

Should be getting close though. nVidia Tegra 6/Parker looks to be a mobile beast this year and the Tegra X1 is already pretty good.
It's just unfortunate that nVidia is pretty much irrellevant in the mobile space.

Now nVidia went from 192 to 256 Cuda cores when it went from the K1 to X1, 28nm to 20nm.
So it stands to reason a linear increase would mean 320 Cuda cores when it drops down to 16nm.
1GHz * 2 FP 16 * 2 FMA * 320 = 1280 Gflop.

Same amount of ROPS but with quarter of the texture mapping units. Bandwidth though, is another kettle of fish entirely, the Xbox One will beat Tegra for many more years to come due to that fact, Tegra likely has inferior Geometry performance too.

Interested to see what nVidia does in 2017.