Wii U vs Nintendo Switch - You Can't Compare!

[Qwark]

awesomeabe1998 said:

Qwark said:

 

 

According to this source the X2 has 1.5 teraflop of computing power. This is 16 bit or half floating point however. Gaming uses 32 bit or full floating points. The Xone is able to render 2.6 TFLOP using half floating points and 1.3 Tflop using full floating points. There was a thread lately about the PS4 pro being able to render 8.4 TFLOPS using half floating points. Anyway if NS uses X2 it gets to 0.75 TFlops leaving a gap of 0.6 TFLOPS, which makes the NS a bit more powerful than half a Xone, without taking many things which are pribably in favour of the Xone into account. Considering how games will look and the frame rate and its stability for third party games.

 

https://m.reddit.com/r/NintendoNX/comments/4z80yo/nvidia_finally_revealed_tegra_parker_x2_with_more/

Regardless a 0.6 TFLOPS difference does not make the system as weak as people make it to be. Obviously other factors come into play, but why would you say XB1 has the advantage when it comes to the other factors?

Mainly costs powersupply and cooling, it's more expensive to make a mobile device than a stationary device with the same power output. The NS has more accessoires than the Xone which costs money to produce. The Xone can use that 1.3 Tflop for how long as it wants without worrying about power usage or cooling, sure it sounds like a jet engine bit it does that for a reason. A tablet has a screen probably a touch screen which costs some money to produce. 

 

Now it's not low in power using either the X1 or X2, but 0.6 TFLOPS is a big difference. Don't forget most graphic intensive  games don't reach 1080/30 on Xone or in rare cases even the PS4. Being 1.2 Tflop less powerful than the PS4 is a big difference for a homeconsole as which Nintendo primarily marketing the NS.

 

Can you make great looking games with 0.6 Tflop, sure especially using a cartoony artstyle. Do games look almost the same as OP implies with less RAM and a GPU which has about 60% of the Xone power. No it simply has to make some compromises which  are especially visible on the big screen.