| Sh1nn said: WiiU - 176GF |
There's a major problem in using NVidia Floating Point Performance when compared to the AMD components in those consoles, both companies measure their end performance differently and Flops don't tell the whole story.
Looking at the GTX 750ti compared to the HD 7870 (a bigger GPU than what's in PS4) the 750ti is meant to only have 1306GFlops, the 7870 has 2560 GFlops, yet both are very close in end gaming performance, plus the GTX 750 ti gets better performance per watt.
The games developed for the Tegra X1 in Shield and other tablets aren't developed with Vulkan or some other more modern, balanced and mutlithreaded API, so NX could in reality hit closer to XB1 than people are thinking, then there's the very real possibility that this rumor could be a small part of the picture, like maybe NX has another component for home or the SOC in these rumors isn't the final chip to be used in NX or the base station also features another Tegra X1 to help put out a better quality experience when you're home.
Even if the gap between PS4/XB1 and NX was accurate based on those pure flop numbers NX in these rumors isn't a pure home console, so direct comparisions don't really make much sense.
I doubt Nintendo are using a straight copy of the Tegra X1 chip, it's probably had modifications, though tbh I'm also doubtful that they're even using an NVidia part, especially when they've had a great business relationship with AMD for 3 console generations and AMD can provide for their handheld/console needs with complete products for their processing requirements.
