Who will provide the NX GPU?

[TheLastStarFighter]

dongo8 said:

JEMC said:

The problem with those articles is that they are based on nothing.

I don't know if you're a PC gamer or follow the news about new graphics cards, but the situation is similar: one site post a rumor about an upcoming product, then another site makes an article about that product using the info from the first site as a source, after that another one does the same claiming "several sources" (the first and second site), and from there it's a snowball going downhill.

What we know from the Eurogamer article is that Tegra X1 seems to be the processor that will power the NX, and that would make it more powerful than PS360 & Wii U, but far from the PS4/X1. And if they go with a Tegra X2, the situation will be better, but it won't change that much.

Found something that may hint a little more closely at the possible power of the chips...Most likely the ones in the NX will be semi-custom though, so who knows about the numbers regardless haha.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9903/nvidia-announces-drive-px-2-pascal-power-for-selfdriving-cars

Looking at this link again, and seeing the setup of the Tegra X2 in the chart, it has me thinking that the NX portable could use a Tegra, while the SCD could potentially use one of the "unknown" Pascal cards for additional graphics processing.  Essentially, 50% of the setup above.  When going solo, the NX could operate with 650 (or less) GFLOPs that the Tegra could provide.  But when docked, the system would have an additional non-mobile graphics card.  No reason it would have to be a second Tegra.  A different card would make much more sense, and could boost a docked NX to 3 or 4 TFLOPs.