Soundwave said:
Qwark said:
NX is not going to compete graphically with Xone or PS4. Why you ask well the most obvious bottlenecks are the powersupply, heat and battery life even if you would supply a gtx1080 with only 20 watts it probably couldn't beat the PS4. And the hybrid NX considering rumours are true also is in need of a CPU which also needs power and generates heat.
Even if Nintendo develops thw most efficient architecture ever for the NX (which would probably result in development hell like the cell). It just isn't yet possible for a portable device to come close to Xone and PS4. Especially if you want to sell the hybrid console for less than $300.I suspect the NX will be close to Wii U in therms of power, perhaps a bit more powerful. Graphical cards don't perform equally on PC and a console due to drivers and a more dedicated
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I think it'll be able to run PS4/XB1 ports at a reduced resolution but we'll see.
PS4 games still look plenty nice on the Vita's 540p display even, 540p is 1/4 the pixels of 1080P. That means theoretically something in the range of 400-500 GFLOPS could work, there is LPDDR4 RAM that is 50-60GB/sec too ... that is easily more than 1/4th the bandwidth of a PS4.
It could operate under one constraint in portable/battery mode and then consume more power in docked/home mode.
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Graphical cards are more than just the flopcount, besides I doubt a handheld would have RAM and a CPU close enough to the Xone or PS4 for easily porting games. So the NX given Eurogamers rumours are true will most likely linger on exclusives.
