TomaTito on 16 March 2017
Noob question here: Doesn't the Tegra X1 have 4xCortex-A57 + 4xCortex-A53? Why isn't the A53 quadcores used for the OS?
| malistix1985 said: Very slow ram, makes a big difference you can see it with the PS4 / XBox One difference, altough the Xbox has a nice memroy buffer the faster ram is one of the things that has helped the PS4 a lot. On PS4 pro the increased speed of ram gives faster texture loading etc, very noticable in comparison movies and one can only start to imagine when the scorpio's 320GB of GDDR5X hits its going to impact games a lot to, espcially in 4k. Now 4Gb total and 3 available is good for a handheld, but the discussion always comes back to this, its almost half the ram of the 5.5 available on PS4 / Xbox and its slower but the Switch doesn't compete with these consoles, but when you port games the ram difference will be one of the factors developers will need to do a lot of work to work around. When you build a game from the ground up for the switch however, this is a very good amount, which is why everyone should hope the console sells well and people will take the time and effort, third parties too. |
Like you mention in the later parts, it's Low Power DDR due to its portable nature.
