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

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JRPGfan said:

curl-6 said:

Not necessarily; custom chips are sometimes less powerful than the chip they're based on.

.....  please dont do that Curl-6.

Your saying nintendo could have spent alot of money on R&D, makeing a weaker than normal Tegra X1?

Thats too much... expensive for no reason, and less than 512 Gflops? >_>

There are other factors besides power. In the case of Switch, efficiency is paramount. They could have made it weaker in order to improve battery life, heat generation, etc.