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

[Miyamotoo]

bonzobanana said:

Soundwave said:

5-8 hours was from NakeDrake, the same guy who said Pascal for Switch, so he's likely wrong on both accounts. 

Emily has said the battery life is "mediocre", so 3 hours is more likely. 

A 20nm Maxwell Tegra X1 eats battery like crazy. To get 5-8 hours from a chip like that would require an enormous battery like 15,000 MaH I'd guesstimate. 

There really is nothing to worry about if the Switch final gflops performance is 400 or even 350 or 300 gflops. We just need to temper our expectations into something more realistic and not pretend this device will match xbox one or ps4 performance because it won't and doesn't need to.

Some realistic expectations are around 500-600 gflops for home console mode (docked), while around 300 gflops for portable mode.