Clarifying the 1.5TFLOPS of the SWITCH for those who just see the numbers.

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vivster said:

fleischr said:

That assumes the Parker chip in Switch is vanilla X2. But being a "custom" Tegra it could be more powerful. Or less powerful. I hope nVidia distinguishes it as something like "Tegra N" rather than "Tegra X1"/ "Tegra X2"

I don't think nVidia and Nintendo would both decide to use the exact same chip in cars in the Switch. A gaming device has more use of extra GPU than a car.

Different use-cases. Different products.

I know Tegra is mostly used for cars with smartphones and tablets being more of a fringe case but that doesn't mean it's just made for it. The X2 (or P1) has the most powerful Tegra graphics yet. Honestly I would be surprised If Nintendo's device will have anything above the specifications beside a higher clock in dock mode.

The Tegra X2 is very CPU centric, featuring the same 256 shaders of the X1 but updating them from Maxwell to Pascal, but increasing the CPU cores from 4xA57+4xA53 cores in a LITTLE.big configuration to 2xDenver and 4xA57 cores in a SUPER.big config.

I think one of the customisations to turn the X2 into a more capable gaming chip would be getting rid of some of those CPU cores and add more shaders.