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

[JEMC]

WagnerPaiva said:

JEMC said:

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 =)

Flash storage is what's inside the memory cards, all of them.