curl-6 said:
Ouch, so even as a portable, it's weaker than a one released three years earlier. |
I feel pretty confident that the games you're going to be playing on a Switch are leagues beyond graphically anything on that Shield portable.
Don't buy all the hype with portable chip theoretically peak numbers either ... those numbers are possible but they are also misleading because mobile chips are throttled after like 10 minues of peak performance.
As ass backwards as Nintendo, I don't think they would gimp the Nvidia chip more than they had to, the Tegra X1 is very powerful for a mobile chip, the reality is to likely push that cheap to peak performance for 3 straight hours likely caused large scale heat and battery issues so it had to be downclocked to where it is to even get 3 hours of battery life.
The giant ass battery in that massive tray sized iPad Pro is rated at like 32 wH (watts per hour basically) ... that means if the system uses more than 10 watts per hour (including screen), you have less than 3 hours before that battery goes dead from a full charge. Now the Switch likely cannot have a battery that large, not in a casing that small. There's only so much you can do with 5-6 watts for a GPU.
