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curl-6 on 04 January 2017
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Soundwave said:
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 have any semblance of battery life. 

If Eurogamer's spec leak is correct, then the Switch runs at about 30% speed when portable, which gives you around 150 Gigaflops, compared to 326 Gigaflops for the Shield. According to DF, Shield gets just under 3 hours of battery life when playing Trine 2, and they don't mention it throttling.

Obviously, Switch games will be better optimized to the hardware than games on the Shield tablet, so yeah, its best looking games will likely beat anything on the Shield, but still, it is a bit disappointing that, unless Eurogamer is wrong, Switch is weaker than a portable from 2014.