Nintendo Patent For Supplemental Computing Device Granted

[Pemalite]

Soundwave said:

Pemalite said:

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. 

It will likely be paired up with LPDDR4 on a 32bit-64bit memory interface, why? Energy efficiency.
GDDR5 and GDDR5X are not energy efficient and also require substantual silicon investment which doesn't help either.

eDRAM isn't a magic bullet... And will also consume additional energy, drive up costs and require more traces and PCB layers.

Can't forget the Xbox One has a chunk of eSRAM as well, which will likely be operating at a higher frequency thanks to the higher thermal ceiling.