Reggie on NX: "For us it's not about specs"

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se7en7thre3 said:

freebs2 said:

If Nintendo doesn't decide to go for expansive controller or an exotic architecture, with current tech I belive you can have better performance for less. I'm just looking at the new graphics cards AMD just announced, the RX460 will be in the 100-130$ range and it's already theorically more powerfull than a Ps4 (except the bandwidth).

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-polaris-10-polaris-11-specs-performance/

Nintendo would  get it at maybe half that price so its very affordable for a modern and power efficient chip.  The portable will come later, and Im guessing would need to be at least 4x  weaker than the home con for reasonable  scaling. if home con nX is 2.5 tf, then 600+ gflop for the portable.  1080p home console, 540p (quarter HD) portable.

Polaris 11 is still way too hot for a portable passively cooled form factor even if you sliced the performance down to 1/4 ... it would still run at like 12 watts for the GPU alone, which means a portable would have to run at 14-15 watts factoring in the screen, WiFi, and CPU also. 

The battery would have to be the size of a lap top battery (Macbook Retina 15 inch sized I'm talking) to run that for even 3 hours.

More likely Nintendo is using mobile chips here, that means Nvidia or PowerVR or Qualcomm (Snapdragon). AMD just doesn't have the experience with mobile chips.