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dahuman on 03 January 2017
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curl-6 said:
Trumpstyle said:

Switch is underclocked 50 % which they had to otherwise it would throttle in portable mode 

The fully clocked X1 runs at 1GHz, so Switch runs at just 30% of that when portable.

 

dahuman said:

Yet Nintendo hasn't disappointed me in exclusives so I have their hardwares but that's beside the point, you are comparing it to the wrong things, no ARM tablet on the market can compete with PC power, even if the Switch is running an X1, it's still mid-high tier when mobile power and power consumption are concerned. The game changed somewhat when we realised that the Switch is also a portable device and not a full time plugged-in device.

The issue is not that its running an X1, the issue is that its clockspeed has been absolutely crippled.

You are right that it's lowered, and I don't like to base anything on rumors but, if it's going to run at 720p max(possibly lower but upscaled as well) in portable mode, it won't be as shitty as some people think it will be. I'm more excited on the fact that we'll actually see good looking mobile games whereas even though my S7 Edge has Vulkan and can run UE4, almost no games are currently taking advantage of it due to too many hardware variations on the mobile market whereas the Switch won't be bottlenecked by the problem.