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Soundwave on 22 August 2016
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fatslob-:O said:
Soundwave said:

Based on what? It's not on Nvidia to announce Nintendo's product. Quite frankly this whole notion of parts suppliers disclosing information on a vendor's product before the vendor even gets to announce it is grossly unprofessional IMO. 

Nintendo clearly has tight NDAs on the NX, not only because Sony/MS but I think they are very afraid that a tablet maker will basically steal a lot of their ideas before they release the stystem. 

I've never seen Nintendo be this secretive over any product before. 

Nvidia specifically saying "game performance" in addition to automotive tasks for the Pascal Tegra is something though. We know Parker is for smart cars, but why is game performance listed as a key feature since they've already said they're out of the Shield console biz. If you were expecting more than that ... really that was never happening. Nintendo has very tight NDAs on this thing. 

Based on the fact that they're delivering an SoC in the first half of 2017 ... 

So basically based on nothing. Quite possible that DMP spurned by Nintendo for Nvidia also simply said "fine, we'll just make our own device", the way that's on their website implies it's some shitty low budget tablet. 

Getting back to Tegra/Parker, Nvidia apparently said today the Parker/Tegra can get up to 1.5 TFLOPS, but they are obviously talking about FP16 mode there, so that would mean 750 GFLOPS in more standarad FP32. 

750 GFLOPS .... welp. If they can deliver that in "docked/home power" mode I'll take it I guess. Shitty home performance given all things but at least it's a reasonable upgrade on the Wii U and not the GameCube to Wii all over again. I guess it could be the whole "Nvidia flops are 30% better than AMD flops" thing, lol, in which case, the reports of it being a little less than an XB1 would kinda line up exactly.