JRPGfan said:
Yes from what I understand its a big+little chip, so it has 4 big cores, and 4 weak cores. I dont understand why nintendo didnt just make use of say 1 or 2 of the weak cores for the OS, so they could have more CPU for gameing, with a extra BIG core for that. |
the layout of the Tegra X1 cores is clustered switching (oldest big.little system), meaning that only the big or the little cores can be active at a time, because that's how they are wired to the caches
for that reason I think the little cores are deactivated at all times (= wasted silicon space) in the Switch, as the chip would've needed to be redesigned for all cores on the die to work at the same time and recent Switch die shots look very much identical to a stock TX1
