Pemalite said:
Miyamotoo said:
We have infos saying that X1 chip is far more powerful and capable cheap than Wii U CPU/GPU, with performance on paper around 3x stronger than Wii Us, and you saying we will again have 720p resolution and below even NX have base unit, and not just only that but there are good chances that NX will actually have Pascal instead of Maxwell.
For the record, I expecting power at least 2-3x stronger than Wii Us, thats around half of power of XB1, I dont expecting XB1 level of power in any case.
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I am not saying the Tegra chip isn't going to be more powerful than the Wii U SoC, it's not an overly difficult thing to achieve anyway, beating the Wii U.
But I am also not the one beating the drum saying it's the second coming either.
You are basing your entire "performance" assumption on a single number. Flops. - Which from that you are assuming it's going to be doing high-end 1080P gaming, when the fact of the matter is, the Tegra chip just isn't capable of it with a degree of imagry we have come to expect, you need to look at the entire graphics processor, not just it's single precision floating point performance.
Let's use the Xbox 360 and Xbox one in combination with your silly flops metric as an example shall we?
Most Xbox 360 games were around 720P, just like the Wii U.
The Xbox 360 has only 240 Gflop.
The Xbox One has 1.3 Teraflops, that's the equivalent of 5.5x Xbox 360's. - Is the Xbox One running games at 5.5x the resolution of the Xbox 360? NO. It's not, it struggles to achieve 1080P in a ton of titles.
Again, having Pascal instead of Maxwell in Tegra isn't a game changer, not to the same degree we saw on the Desktop, Tegra isnt going from 28nm to 16nm for starters, that limits what nVidia can do.
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No, I don't assume on single number only, I assume also that doesnt make sense at all to release another 720p console in 2017. after Wii U. With Wii U Nintendo clearly targeting 720p machine, and they achieve that, most of Nintendo Wii U games are 720p/60fps and even have some 1080p games, with NX they will most likely target 540p-720p for handheld only and 1080p with base unit for playing on TV, and that could be easily achieved with around 3x stronger hardware than Wii U has, and we all know that Wii U CPU and GPU are quite weak and have only 1GB RAM for games.
I didnt said Pascal will be game changer but definitely will make some difference instead Maxwell.
Also fact is that Nintendo always using custom chips for their hardware, so most likly X1, X2 or Pascal base chip will be custom made for Nintendo needs.
