Nvidia says they are powering the Switch

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shikamaru317 said:

Slade6alpha said:
Is Nvidia any good? What's the other option, AMD, Intel? Hope they have a dedicated conference for this thing, they must obviously if the thing is releasing in march.

Nvidia usually tops AMD performance at any given flops level. So for instance if Switch is 900 gflops in console mode, it could in theory match the 1300 gflops AMD chip in Xbox One. Though I doubt Switch has more than 700 gflops in console mode, maybe only 500 if it's using Tegra X1 instead of X2. 

The tradeoff is that AMD is desperate for deals while Nvidia usually isn't, so Nintendo might have paid alot for these Nvidia chips, and knowing Nintendo they'd pass that cost on to the consumer instead of eating it themselves, meaning a high release price possibly.

That's not how performance metrics work. Performance is absolute. A 1 TFLOP GPU is always more powerful than a 800 GFLOPS one. But absolute metrics are just one thing, both AMD and NVIDIA have some differences in GPU design which can be benificial depending on use case scenerio.

For example, Nvidia's Pascal is a really efficiënt architecture and quite powerful, but AMD's Polaris seems to be better optimized for newer API's and is quite efficiënt to boot.