More leaks; Nintendo Switch to use costum Tegra X2, 1.5Tflops, architecture unveiled

[WagnerPaiva]

JEMC said:

WagnerPaiva said:
Not to alarm anyone, but keep in mind that this thing use cartridges, so maybe it don´t even need that much RAM or clock to run awesome stuff, the way the Switch will read the media is totally diferent than what the XBOne and PS4 do.
Also, no stupid stinking installs!

No, cards are faster than BD discs, but RAM is much more faster than both of them. Flash cards have a transfer speed of Megabits per second (Mb/s) while the speed between RAM and the processor is measured in Gigabits per second (Gb/s). That's 1000x faster.

And RAM is used to store the data the processor, in this case the Tegra chip, needs to do the calculus, as well as the data it will need next and also the resulting data of its operations. RAM is also where the textures are copied to in order to be able to use them fast (it's odd when your game loads a blank wall and after a second or two the bricks texture appears on it, right?).

Having less RAM is not better, no matter the format of the games, disc, cartridge or digital.

of course, but the flash data is a whole new kind of game. I for one am very optimistic =)