| Soundwave said: It's impossible to know the price/performance of the Nvidia/Nintendo deal, it's certainly not the same as buying an Nvidia GPU from the store. Semi Accurate was the first to say Nvidia for NX, and they were pretty blunt in saying Nintendo got basically a highway robbery of a deal in effect. |
Right on. We don't know the financial details.
nVidia was likely wanting a design win for Tegra as it's been a pretty big flop all things considered.
And if you have a successfull design win, then chances are other manufacturers get onboard.
With that said, don't believe everything you read at Semi-Accurate.
| Soundwave said: For a hybrid (which seems to be Nintendo's choice), a Nvidia chip is about as good as it was gonna get. Tegra X1 is a decent chip, we probably haven't seen anywhere close to what it could actually do because it's never had a software developer like Nintendo optimize a game specifically for it from the ground up. But a Pascal based Tegra will likely be considerably better than that, if Nintendo is using a Pascal Tegra, I don't think there's a mobile chip on the planet right now that would be better for performance and still fit into a reasonable price range. Whether you like the concept of a hybrid is a different debate, but given what Nintendo wants to make, Nvidia is an excellent choice. |
Tegra doesn't have the best CPU performance, that's important for gaming as well you know.
Adreno 530 is also able to give Tegra X1 a good run for it's money, the main reason why Tegra seems to smash the competition in devices like the Shield TV is basically attributed to higher thermal ceiling which allows for higher clocks... If the device is a "Hybrid" then you need to account for the mobile form factors lower thermal ceiling.
And we can't forget about the Mali G71/Bifrost either, which is set to be able to rival Tegra in terms of single precision compute.
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