Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

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NATO said:

haqqaton said:

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..

The Pixel C packs a 9000 mah battery. It also costed US$ 500. In the best case, Nintendo could pack a battery with 5000 mah on a 7' form factor, so they already got half the juice. 13 hours in web browsing probably translate to 6 or 7 gaming in the Pixel.

However, the screen on the Pixel is much bigger and brighter and the native resolution is much higher, so we could expect that this, combined with the underclock would provide a similar battery life to the Switch.