Tegra X1 successor Detailed by Nvidia (likely NX SoC)

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CaptainExplosion said:

JRPGfan said:

Nvidia reports FP16 performance, when they mention how strong their Tegra X1 is... why? cuz big numbers fool people.

Sony & MS 's consoles are useing FP32 (twice as demanding) (16 x 2 = 32). Also known as half or full floating points.

Thats why Tegra X1 is 1tflop fp16, but only 500 Gflops when you meassure it the same way as the PS4 or XB1.

 

Does that answear your question? in a head to head compairison it looks like this:

FP32 the tegra X1 is just 500 Gflops (0.5  teraflops).

FP32 the PS4 is 1840 Gflops (1.84 teraflops).

 

The tegra X1 is 512 Gflops(fp32)

The tegra X2 is 625 Gflops (fp32)

So its a upgrade, just not a gigantic one.

 

Basically 1/3 the power of the PS4.

If your generious and say flops arnt all equal, you can probably give it a 10-15% boost or so.

Point still stands, its closer to 1/3 than 1/2, of the power.

That is assumeing they dont make a custom chip, or throw 2 of these chips into it or some such.

Still won't be enough for the NX. Goodbye third party support. -_-

It should have OK Japanese support. I'd say above the 3DS. 

This isn't really intended to compete head on with the PS4 or XBox One/Scorpio though I don't think. 

I think Nintendo's two main specific targets for this system are younger kids .... to get them away from tablets or at least if they want mobile games, NX will have those but it'll have Nintendo games too. Nintendo cannot lose a generation of kids to Apple/Samsung. The other main audience is Japan ... this is going to play big in Japan because a portable console is really what that market's wanted for a while now and Japanese don't care so much about the highest end graphics. 

This system should trounce the PS4 in Japan, ensuring good Japanese support. 

If you were expecting to play like GTA VI on NX though or for Nintendo to challenge PS4 head-on ... yeah probably bad news for that person.