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bonzobanana on 17 December 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
bonzobanana said:

Active cooling because its primarily a gaming device not a standard tablet and because Nintendo makes robust, reliable hardware. Some markets have excessive outdoor temperatures, Australia for example. Many android tablets run excessively hot with passive cooling when used for long sessions of gaming. Lets not forget it could still be a 20nm fabrication process if using the older Tegra. In portable mode the fan may not even be active unless required where as docked it may operate 100% of the time. 

There was a claim at the beginning that Switch would be 2.5x wii u performance overall. Again 400 gflops fits in with that but 600 gflops is probably a ratio of at least 4x performance. 600 gflops seems completely wrong and extremely unlikely but at least we are agreed with 500 gflops is a possibility although that is my maximum figure and your lowest.

Actually most recent Switch patent shows that fan is working even in handheld mode but at low mode, while at high mode in dock.

I dont recall those claims about 2.5x Wii U power, and they based on what exactly!? Probably on that Tegra is 512 Gflops while Wii U is 176 Gflops, but that makes around 3x more power than Wii U. Emily actually said that Switch is very capable, less powerful than XB1 but compatible with it. Like I wrote, 400 (or less) Gflops is actually worst possible case and lowest prediction I saw until now, 500-600 is far more realistic, but its clear we don't agree about expectations, hopefully we will know more in January. ;)

I'm sure the fan operates in a number of modes when portable, off, slow, fast and possibly speeds in between slow and fast. Thats just normal for a portable device running off battery power.

There is a generational difference between graphic processing units, later architecture tends to be more efficient. While the wii u was only 176 gflops I don't think there was anyone who would argue that it wasn't still more powerful than the gpu's of ps3 and 360 that had higher gflops and the nvidia switch gpu's will be the same above the wii u performance.

Nintendo don't release specifications nowadays so we won't get that information in January. It took a lot of work and time to finally get the real figures for wii u and the starting position was over 4x the actual value. As someone said about the wii u, the real reason 176 gflops wasn't accepted for so long was people were in denial about just how low Nintendo would go in performance terms.

There is a real chance my Switch figures are actually well over the real figure. 

We shall see but I hope the same old excuses aren't wheeled out including developer laziness and quick and dirty port that doesn't take advantage of the hardware when the Switch fails to provide games that match what would be expected of a 600 gflops system in March. Nvidia and arm chips are very well documented with a lot of developer hours so the Switch should be firing on pretty much all cylinders out of the gate.