Nintendo Patent For Supplemental Computing Device Granted

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Pemalite said:

shikamaru317 said:

I don't know, Tegra X1 is 512 gflops so I'd guess Tegra X2 is around 800 gflops. Two Tegra X2's working together should match or exceed XB1. This of course all assumes that Nintendo is using Nvidia, which I'm still doubtful about.

Except there is more to a games performance and image quality than flops.

Tegra is likely to be constrained by a very limited memory configuration, minimal caches, likely inferior geometric performance, certainly less texturing power.

It's unlikely NX will have just a standard memory config, that's where Nintendo will likely insist on serious customization. 

Even the New 3DS has 10MB of eDRAM. Nintendo loves their high speed RAM pools. 

Though as I've read on NeoGaf, Nvidia's tiling approach could allow Nintendo to use a good deal less in terms of high speed RAM/caches.