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se7en7thre3 on 15 June 2016
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Soundwave said:
se7en7thre3 said:

That's what you predict for a living room box?  If Nintendo stubbornly sticks to 28nm ancient tech, then yes I could see 1 tf .  but everything is lining up for the Polaris 11: "Industry leading chips" news, tech readily available, launch delay to 2017.  Polaris 11 fits all of Nintendo's pre requisites of low power, price and decent performance.  

Its only if NX is a tablet, or if they decide to make a shield type console with mobile tech, that will hold performance back. Also Nvidia's shifting its tegra focus to automotive and other markets so they seem to be out of the question (Emily rodgers took a big L yesterday, she lost credibility with the Zelda being female rumor).  Nintendo can release a polaris 11 (customized, possibly cut down a bit) powered console for $250 easily.

I don't think they're using Polaris or AMD, but that's just me. 

Even from E3 it seems like the three semi-custom gaming related design wins that AMD got were 1.) XBox One S (confirmed by MS to have more horsepower than the OG XBO), 2.) Scorpio and 3.) PS4 Neo. 

I think sharing games between the portable and console is still important to Nintendo, as such the console NX will be built largely off mobile components like (tada) the Nvidia Tegra series with an ARM CPU. AMD does not really make mobile components, Polaris 11 is still something that would melt a tablet or microconsole. 

Which is OK, those chips if configed properly can still be quite powerful. Nintendo could probably get a sick deal on such a chip price wise since Nvidia has not found any real big vendor for that tech and are probably frustrated by that. We'll see I guess. I'm not expecting anything special hardware wise. 

I think what they're using is basically the next-gen Tegra X1 successor (Parker-based) at 16nm which they got a big price break on because how many of these can Nvidia put into cars anytime soon? The current Tegra X1 caps out at 500 GFLOPS, so the successor to that being about 1 TFLOP sounds about right. 

How does One S qualify as a design win?  Also the performance bump is minimal ("unlocked" as stated in multiple articles, so power already there) and seems to be limited to HDR.  Its safer to assume NX is powered by AMD until proven otherwise.