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Poojipoo on 19 September 2016
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Soundwave said:
Poojipoo said:
If the NX is a handheld/tablet/hybrid as rumors have stated, we're likely looking at something between Wii U and Xbox One level graphics based on mobile SOCs currently or soon becoming available. Unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat, they'll max out at around 800 gflops. 800 gflops would frankly be insanely impressive for a mobile device, but it's dependent on whether Nintendo goes with the newest chips or goes with something cheaper. That said, DMP, who supplied the 3DS PICA200, has the impressive M3000 ready, which would likely be cost effective for Nintendo. Hard to say.

The X2 is better than the M3000, at least that's what people are saying. 

Gimme one X2 in the portable, with the option of a home dockable congif with 2 "X2s". I'll take it and run Nintendo. 

Nintendo NX Portable Console - 1 Tegra X2 (625 GFLOP performance)

Nintendo NX + Supplement NX Home Dock - Has an Extra Tegra X2 processor for 1.3 TFLOP performance at about 35-40 watts. 

Guess there would be some inefficiencies with twin processors like that, but beggars can't be choosers. 

It's actually been really difficult to tell exactly how powerful the M3000 is because documentation is sparse and lacks details (not to mention it's in japanese).  Their release statement says that it is in XBox One/PS4 range in TFLOPs, but then their website makes a point saying 800 GFLOPs.  No sources say whether it's FP16 or FP32.  If it "can" be up in the TFLOPs, that suggests maybe it is only when using FP16, but when it's not maybe it's down closer to 800 GLFOPS?  Or maybe their TFLOPs claim is a total lie (which seems very strange) and it's actually 800 GFLOPs at FP16, bringing it down to 400.  Then finally, there's the confusion over whether thing thing is 28nm, which would be extra confusing.

Either way, it'll be interesting to see what Nintendo can pull out of their hardware...