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setsunatenshi on 21 October 2016
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HoloDust said:
setsunatenshi said:

Not really, it's a power charger = hdmi connector to the TV. No processing power in it (according to Nintendo's PR guy's own words).

 

Not anywhere close to even and Xbox 1 and the ports will be the same kind of ports the Vita also gets from PS4, which means, mostly smaller independent titles and some Japanese last gen crossovers.

As I said earlier (and in different threads), in theory it doesn't have to be in dock, but in main unit.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8112499

For the sake of thought experiment, slap two Tegra X1 onto the same die, make it 14nm and run only one downclocked to 700MHz in hendheld mode for ~360 GFLOPS and (if my math is correct) around 10W TDP and run both @1GHz when docked for 1TFLOPs. Or slap 3 X1s for 1.5TFLOPs.

Of course, this is all just having fun with guesstimates, no idea what tech at what cost nVidia can provide, and what is Nintendo willing to pay.

you can't just 'glue' 2 processors together, that's not how it works. also having 2 processors would also increase the tdp (terrible on a handheld) and also lower the battery by a ton. all of this without even thinking about price, that would be a whole new can of worms.

the easiest way to think of it is, if it was possible to have around the x1 performance in a tablet, the x1s wouldn't have the size it does (even adding the optical drive).

regardless, for a handheld this should be plenty powerful, it should not be compared to a regular console as it wouldn't even be fair to what they are trying to do.