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Nuvendil on 31 October 2016
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SvennoJ said:
Peh said:

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.

True, however it's rather that mobile gpu's seem to have less grunt per rated gflop in real life. The Galaxy S7 Edge should have easily outperformed the wiiU at 512 gflops fp32, except for the catching on fire part :) And that's a 3600 mAH battery, 2.4x of the standard WiiU gamepad.

The Switch looks pretty big, 5,000 mAH battery is not impossible. The controllers have there own batteries as well, perhaps adding to the total battery life when attached. Anyway there's always the option to have an external battery, should be cheaper now after the Pokemon Go rush on them.

Rememer, phones are passively cooled, so overheating is a real concern if you run at full throttle nonstop.  Looking at the Switch, it seems to have built in active cooling.  And I will bet the battery life will be pretty low in all honesty, that's why they are repeated emphasizing it is a home machine with the portability as a feature.  The real question here is that with active cooling, they could augment the chip to have more grunt, so a lot of this will come down to how custom this custom chip is.