Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

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bigtakilla said:

haqqaton said:

After seeing some OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons and considering that Switch supports Vulkan and that Vulkan is great for ARM mobile chips like Tegra X1, I think we can be confident to say that Switch, even undocked, will be fairly better than Wii U. To be fair, they are comparing Vulkan to OpenGL|ES in the videos below but I think that the point stands.

 

Well it is supposed to be their next gen system, but by how much is the question

I believe/hope that it could be by a large margin. The CPU utilization looks amazing on Vulkan. It'll preserve battery and keep the system running cooler while getting higher FPS than OpenGL. On top of that, Switch is capable of FP16 too that can help with some less precise calculations utilizing fewer resources. Wii U didn't have any of these features (and a lot of others).

I'm a bit skeptical yet I believe that undocked Switch will be confortably ahead of Wii U.