Who will provide the NX GPU?

[JEMC]

JRPGfan said:

JEMC said:

I'm sure Conina will answer you and point your mistake with his post, but meanwhile I'll say something about the bolded part.

Such dock wouldn't be 300 $/€ unless Nintendo is trying to scam us. The reason for that is that Nvidia's GTX 1060 can be found from board partners for $249, and that's a ful card with the memory, power system and cooling, and the profits from both Nvidia and the board partner. Of course, Nintendo wouldn't go for the 1060 because it's too much for the handheld part with its almost 4TFlops. But then, there's the GP107 which is half the chip of that card.

So Nintendo going with a lower cost/performance chip and having a better price from Nvidia (aren't they supposedly eager to enter the console market? And wouldn't they offer Nintendo a better price than its AIB for a contract of maybe tens of million chips?), they could launch such dock for $249 and still make a nice profit.

Look at the PS4, thats only 1.84 Teraflops.

They used every trick in the book, and might be able to reach 249$.

Why would Nintendo be able to make basically a home console type docking station thats more powerfull than a PS4, for less?

Nintendo tend to make weird design choices, and arnt really as good with hardware as sony is.

I wouldnt be surprised if they made a 2 Teraflop+ docking station it turned out to be 299$.

You're missing the point: the dock wouldn't be a full console. For starters, if it's just a dock with a "power boost" hardware, it wouldn't require a CPU (a GPU would be enough) or an optical drive/card reader, nor an HDD, and the circuitry would be far more simple too.

AMD's XConnect tech, which is a way to connect a desktop GPU to a laptop via USB 3.1/Thunderbolt 3, does that, with the GPU inside the dock taking the role of the one inside the laptop. There's nothing stopping Nintendo from doing that on their own, with a Tegra X1 or X2 and a more powerful GPU on the dock that would only use the CPU part of the Tegra chip.