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Wyrdness on 23 January 2017
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bonzobanana said:
Wyrdness said:

Where exactly are you getting all of this from because every speculation so far puts it at at least twice as powerful than the Wii U when in portable mode even the lower end speculation. Even the improvements done to BOTW and the presentation of SMO signal that it's higher than what you're claiming here.

Well this has already been debated elsewhere but certainly 2x as powerful overall I've not seen anywhere for portable mode do you have a source?

The switch cpu performance is about 2x wii u, switch gpu is about 150 gflops in portable mode compared to 176 gflops for wii u plus possible 24 gflops if the wii gpu can assist. Memory bandwidth is likely to be 25.6GB/s shared for Switch compared to 12.8GB/s for wii u but the wii u also has a 32MB pool of high speed memory at about 70GB/s I think. Looking at game performance for Zelda between wii u and Switch in portable mode we are seeing same resolution and possibly a more consistent frame rate on Switch but we will have to see final software as it was an early build of the wii u game. I estimated about a 30% advantage to Switch overall in portable mode. It's not a huge performance difference really between wii u console and Switch portable mode even allowing for the later architecture of the nvidia gpu. I think you have to factor in what we have seen as well on Switch from a technical level in its games. If anything the Switch seems to be performing below the expected performance level based on the leaked spec. It is struggling to increase the resolution of 720p portable games to 1080p docked as expected with many falling below at 900p native resolution. This may indicate a memory bandwidth issue when docked or some other currently unknown issue.

Again where are you getting those numbers? You're asking for sources but not giving any, the threads on this very site with people like Permite or what ever his name debated this and came up with the twice the power speculation. If you're basing this on EG's speculation they're already out of date Foxconn is now the most legit leak as they gave details that can't be guessed about the Switch and they had the Switch at better performance than what EG speculated, EG even admitted they sat on their own info for months.

Switch for a start isn't a device you can estimate from flops and such this was debated in the other threads, for one Nvidia flops are do more work per number than AMDs, secondly the Switch may have access to Nvida's architecture, shaders and all which Wii U doesn't further widening the gap. Thirdly you're using a game that is a port, Aonuma confirmed BOTW didn't land on the Switch until last April making it a quick port of something built for a different architecture and all.