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NATO on 21 December 2016
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haqqaton said:
Pemalite said:

The Google Pixel C with it's Tegra, is faster than the Nintendo Switch, will have a bigger and better display with higher power consumption and still gets over 13 hours of battery life in web browsing.

Vulkan is irrellevent, it's not going to be some magical "Secret Sauce".
The Wii U has a low level API that is higher performance than Vulkan if a Developer wishes to build for it.
Same goes for the Xbox and Playstation platforms.

An API like Vulkan does offer better performance than higher level API's like Direct X 11 and OpenGL.

About Pixel C battery, we must note that the tablet has a bigger form factor than Switch and very, very probably a bigger battery. Besides, the tablet throttles.

What I really said about Vulkan (in this thread):

First here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8207955

Then here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8208201

The pixel C is *SIGNIFICANTLY* thinner than the switch, at only 7mm thick compared to the switch at 24+mm thick, so the switch should have plenty of space for a much better battery, yet it doesn't.

But it's Nintendo, are you really that surprised? They have a reputation for cheaping out, take the WiiU gamepad, it has a battery slot much bigger than the battery it ships with.. then they sell a bigger battery separately..