| dgboweniii said: Yep, It's running on Pascal, it will be more powerful than the PS4. |
Prove it.
| TheLastStarFighter said: This is a pretty nice write up of the system, suggesting it will be between 1-1.5 TFLops, right in the XBOne range. http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/nintendo-switch-hardware-analysis/ |
No.
| HoloDust said: Yeah, there's just one problem with that article - it's written by someone who just picked up highest number nVidia put out, not paying attention that it's FP16 performance and then went on to compare it with FP32 performance of PS4 and X1. X1 is 512GFLOPS in FP32, not 1TFLOP (that's FP16). However, I do agree that 1-1.5TFLOPS (FP32) might be possible in docked mode, it's just a question how far Nintendo went with the whole concept. |
Doubt it.
Pascal based Tegra is already running at something like 1466Mhz. You would need to hit almost 3Ghz to have 1.5 Teraflops.
Besides, there is more to performance than flops, if it was the only thing we needed to worry about then the comparisons would be easy.
| 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. |
I don't think you can use the Playstation 4 and Vita as some kind of comparison. Nintendo has combined both it's product lineups and typically has a strong first party lineup.
| HoloDust said: 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. |
Sure. That would be entirely possible.
However... SLI isn't efficient.
It also drives up costs.
Memory pools need to be duplicated for each chip.
| Soundwave said: There's lots of things techies say Nintendo should do, like a certain group of people who were convinced a 2.5 TFLOP AMD Polaris *had* to happen. |
Well. I never said it *had* to happen. But I would have liked that kind of level of capability in the stationary device at a minimum.
More power is always a good thing in my eyes.
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