| Soundwave said: It will be really interesting to see if the final version has an active fan or not. The rumor is the Tegra X2 sucks less power so they'll just swap out the X1 and remove the fan. But I'm still not sure if they'd have to throttle. I'd be OK with a fan if it means the chip can run at max power. |
(again, rumors)
While most speculation about the NX dev kit fan is about simulating the final hw, I'm more on the side of it being there as a stability feature (not to mention dev kits appearing rudimentary in general) . If NX features a custom X2, despite 16nm efficiency gains I still expect it to be downclocked, (350-400 gflops single precision ). after the tiny battery in the Wii u pad, Im just really worried about the battery nintendo will provide, if its 3hrs or less what would be the point of its tablet-y form .
