| superchunk said: RE active cooling Here is a very detailed and direct referenced break-down of the Nintendo patent filed this past week. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5ii58o/nintendo_switch_patent_megathread/ I don't see why you ignore this as a source for active cooling outside of purposeful bias. RE NS vs Shield TV Why are you asking if NS GPU is 1GHz? Shield TV is only 512GHz (FP32). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1 That is what I've had in the OP for X1 and orig dev kit rumor all along. That is at least where NS started at as a base discussion before doing whatever tweaks they've done for hte 500 man-years of effort Nvidia claimed. Even if we base NS at the dev kit rumor, we see a lower CPU in NS, better RAM in NS and equivalient GPU in NS. However, there is also https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/ This demonstrates what the X2 or P1 in the wiki above is discussing. It also, thus far, matches the latest confirmations in patents and confirmed things like usb-c power/adapter to dock, no fans/tech in dock, shoulder buttons on connector end of joycons, etc. The only quesitonable data in that now is maxwell vs pascal - though there have been multple sources on gaf to say while dev kit is maxwell, they are still positive retail is actually pascal. This is where the Denver and some clock speeds in the OP come from and that is absolutely more powerful and very much plausible. |
Patents =/= Source
I don't care about just one stat like the amount of GFlops a machine can deliver and that's especially if it's just rumored. Clock rate also determines how fast the machine will perform and if the Switch is clocked at less than half of the Tegra X1, there's almost no chance of it matching the SHIELD Android TV which struggled with last gen ports seeing as how Nvidia is usually only able to fit in 1 GPC in their mobile chips ...
I don't know how you sleep at night with these huge leaps in logic ...
I have no idea what you're compulsive obsession is about in belief that the Switch will somehow come on top of another similar unit which is actually released with active cooling, has constant power supply from the wall and is in a bigger form factor to allow better ventilation of heat ... (Even if you believe that the Switch will get a fan to cool off the processor it still won't have the benefit of having a higher power consumption.)
The relatively ginormous Google Pixel C could only clock the Tegra X1's GPU to 850 MHz so what hope does the Switch have to do better ?
