solid rumor: Nintendo Switch will be using Tegra X2

[Peh]

SvennoJ said:

Peh said:

What I can give Nintendo credit for is the very low power consumption. Where back in the day the PS3 and Xbox 360 used 160-180 Watts, the Wii only did 30 Watts and the Wii U like you said 34 Watts.

The PS4 is currently around 135 Watts and the Xbox One about 115 watts.

What power consumption the NS will have is only to be rumored. Both in handheld mode and home console mode.

The WiiU Gamepad uses about 1.8 watts (3 hours on a 1500 mah battery) Mobile phones have up to 3300 mah batteries, Vita 2200 mah with external battery pack rated at 5000 mah. It's not much to work with, Switch running at 6 watts will still give it only 3 hours with a 5000 mah battery.

At this point I doubt how much faster it will be than the WiiU. WiiU has 0.35 tflops, 12.8Gb/s memory + 70Gb/s edram. Tegra X1 doubles the main memory bandwidth but doesn't have edram and will only be 40% faster. WiiU to Switch would be comparable to X1 to PS4 difference. It's still impressive to pack 1.4x WiiU into a handheld, but I'll wait for DF before deciding if Zelda is worth upgrading to Switch for.

I wouldn't take much value in the flops. They don't represent the feature level the GPU/CPU will work with and what visuals will be possible in the end. It's like back in the day where they used BITS to describe the power of a console (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit and so on). But, you know.. compare N64 to Atari Jaguar 64 ... and do the math. Today we talk about FLOPS which is kinda the same not saying much about the whole performance of a console. Speaking about the battery the gamepad has.. that was kind of a joke, because they deliberately place a very small one into the gamepad.

The top one (1.5 A) is the default battery which is being place into the gamepad. The larger one (2,55A) gives you 2-3 additional hours of gameplay. And it really shows the differents.

Maybe the NS does the same? :/

I don't know the current power consumption of the NS, nor does I know the battery size. 5mah woud be pretty big. It's all a mystery as to what the games will look on the go and what part the docking station really plays.