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Soundwave said:
More likely the Tegra chips consume more electricity than people think. That Shield Console with the Tegra X1 consumes almost *20 watts* when it's really being pushed ... that's a ridiculous power draw for a mobile chip. That would kill that battery in the Shield console in like 50 minutes. The K1 even is not 5 watts max .... Nvidia admits it's 5-8 watts and can even peak at 11 watts. There's a reason cell phone makers passed on the chip, it's way too power hungry for smaller devices like that, it's even tough for a lot of tablets to handle. You can't just devote your entire electrical "budget" to your GPU either ... your CPU, your RAM, your LCD screen, your WiFi antenna, your flash memory, etc. all need electricity too, those don't magically run for free. If we take the battery that's in the Tegra K1 tablet (5200 Mah, 19.75 Watt Hours) ... that means divided the 19.75 by 3 hours (lets say 3 hours is the minimum a portable device needs), that gives you an energy "budget" of 6.5 watts per hour, you can't exceed that or your battery life goes under 3 hours. That's 6.5 watts for *everything*, not just the GPU too. My guess is you will see with the Switch that hackers will try to "trick" the system into running in docked mode when it's actually undocked, but you'll also see that the battery dies in like one hour in that case. |
DF timed the Shield tablet at 3 hours of battery life when running a PS3/360 caliber game. If it could do that in 2014, Switch should be able to have decent battery life while running faster than just 30% of a stock X1.
