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Miyamotoo on 17 August 2016
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JEMC said:
Miyamotoo said:

I dont think they are outdated, but infos saying there are expecting new dev kits this month.

There is zero sense to use Nvidia Tegra X1 dev kit if you actually going with AMD, if they really going with AMD based console they would useAMD based dev kits from some older AMD hardware. That's incomparable less soluble than that NX using Tegra X1 or Pascaly based X2 chip for NX and because that we have Tegra based X1 dev kit.

Nintendo can't obviosuly use older AMD GPUs because they are too hot and power hungry, and can't be used on a sealed unit.

The Tegra X1 is a good compromise as it allows devs to start working on a machine with ARM processors and GPU architectures like those found in current PCs. Nintendo's middleware and the own devs could handle the transition from an Nvidia architecture to an AMD one. C'mon, it's not like launch games will use all the power and resources of the NX, right?

Oh, and if you have a link to where you saw about those new dev kits being shipped this month, I'd appreciate it.

Offcourse it can use older AMD tech in dev kits if they relly go with AMD.

Now almost every product have ARM processor so ARM dev kit today relly isnt problem (also last few Nintendo handhelds are ARM based), but AMD GPU and Nvidia GPU are quite different, especially if we comparing Nvidia mobile Tegra X1 GPU and for instance PS4/XB1 console AMD GPUs, totaly difrent things. So it doesn't make sense, if Nintendo goes with AMD GPU they would you use AMD based dev kits, not Nvidia. It very easy, if you have dev kit of some architecture, its almost certain that product will have that architecture and not some completely different.

I dont have link, that was post of some insader on Neogaf, he just posted that he expecting new dev kit to arrive this month. Also when I already mentioned Neogaf, one reliable user from reliable source stating that NX will use Pascal Tegra chip (so it not just Eurogamer info about Pascal), and that totally have sense beacuse dev kits are overclocked X1 chip (like Eurogamer said).