se7en7thre3 said:
Soundwave said:
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.
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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.
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We'll see, personally I don't think so. It's also rather curious that Ubi Soft announced Just Dance for NX, but not any of their other traditional IP. I wouldn't expect a hardware beast, I think something around XBOne is probably what Nintendo will get then the portable can be 1/4th of that for easier sharing of games.
A 20 watt Tegra chip for the console (at about 1 TFLOP), cut down to 1/4th (250GFLOPS) for the portable will allow for easy scaling of games between both devices.
To be honest even though I'd love an uber-powerful Nintendo console, 1 TFLOP even would be something that could run the new Zelda at 1080P with 2-3x more detail ... I mean realistically that's probably more than good enough for Nintendo's needs for the next 5 years.
