spemanig said:
What's the difference? I know X2 is stronger, but by how much? Both are stronger than Wii U and weaker than XBO, so why does it matter? How close is Wii U to X1, how close is X2 to XBO, and how close are X1 and X2 to each other? How much would X2 drive up the cost? Is it worth it? The system needs to be cheap to thrive. |
I'm not super knowledgeable on the Tegra Chips (or much hardware in general honestly lol) so i'm not really the one for you to be asking these questions, but I think a Tegra X2 would put it at least at Xbox One levels of power, if not slightly lower, unless someone correct me if i'm wrong. I just mainly want it to be an X2 because it would make me feel more confident in the Switch being able to keep getting third party ports. The Tegra X1 is a powerful chip on its own, and is still much more powerful than a Wii U at least, but I don't think it's anywhere near the PS4 or Xbox One. At least the Tegra X2 gives the Switch enough amount of power to keep getting third party ports and not be dropped like the Wii U was due to being underpowered.
On Nvidia's website they mention in the announcement that they are providing the hardware in the Switch is that they are using the same architecture that the world's top and most powerful GPU's out right now are using, which I think probably means Pascal, so that's a good sign at least.
