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Miyamotoo on 19 December 2016
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setsunatenshi said:
Miyamotoo said:

Yup, it seems you are right and I was wrong, but EG still dont knows how many SM and with custom part what exactly Nintendo changed in cheap, we know clocks only and memory, but still dont know whole storey.

It didn't take too long of us arguing for the realistic expectations to the Switch. It's a handheld device and as such there is no voodoo magic to turn this machine into some powerhouse. Especially when Maxwell architecture was pretty much "confirmed".

We have now a handheld that can connect to the TV and get a slightly better performance that way. Isn't that good enough?

Nobody really expected powerhouse, even more positive expectations were little less than XB1 power.

Double of GPU clock make huge difference, with that different you could make 720p game from portable mode running at 1080p on TV, like Eurogamer said.

 

bonzobanana said:
I think its good enough.

It's likely the SOC is the same size as the normal Tegra X1 so I'm expecting a bit of cache memory, perhaps frame buffer memory to fill the void left by the big.little cpu arrangement being removed. I think it will be optimised a bit for gaming peformance. That might claw back so performance lost over the normal Tegra X1 running at higher clock speeds. I'm pretty happy with this because 400 gflops was my middle position and there was a possibility they would go lower. Obviously cpu performance is much lower than Tegra X1 or the Switch development kit but its still a good level I would say. It still performs in docked mode between last gen and current gen consoles its just now its much closer to last gen, perhaps about 2x the performance of 360/ps3 approx.

I have to say though I really like the Switch, the design, the concept, the VR (hopefully) it just seems like a product I will enjoy using. Maybe a bit of Skyrim on the big TV screen, perhaps a bit more as a portable and then perhaps a few sessions playing it in VR. It really appeals to me.

I'm playing skyrim on ps4 at the moment and love the game but I can't see a huge difference from xbox 360 to ps4. Yes its higher res with a few nicer textures and graphic effects but its not VR. Also the ps4 version has had a little bit of slowdown I don't remember on 360.

Real question remains what exactly Nintendo customized with chip, define the custom something so it would better optimised for gaming.