Ventura Beat: Nintendo Switch are based on Nvidia's Maxwell Architecture not Pascal

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Captain_Yuri said:

See the decision is just odd if all this is true.

1 TF With Maxwell? They are basically trying to push more power with an older and less efficient arch on a portable? The Tegra x1 was 512Gflops and this is double that... Like I don't understand the logic behind it cause for battery life, heat and etc, Pascal would be the better choice

I will take it with a grain of salt.

It would certainly fit with Nintendo's favorable stance on old hardware. But yeah, it would actually be ridiculous. Pascal is not that new and Maxwell is absically stone age tech. Would be weird even for Nintendo to go that route.

Then again Nintendo only cares about money and I'm sure they'd get those old Tegra chips for cheap.