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sc94597 on 18 March 2017
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JRPGfan said:
sc94597 said:

Why wouldn't a Switch 2.0 be at least as powerful as the PS4? I mean compare Tegra X1 to Tegra 2 which were released five years apart. The best Tegra 2 chip was about as powerful as the Wii with 7 GFLOPS of performance. 

 

At the very least the Switch 2.0 will have more usable ram, a much better CPU, and modern feature sets which outperform the PS4. The GPU will probably be much more capable too. 

 

Or are you saying you don't think the Switch 2.0 would be as weak as a PS4?

 

I suspect we will probably get a New Switch like we did New 3DS which will approach the base PS4 in performance some time at the end of its life, capable of playing Switch games at 1080p 60fps. The Switch 2.0 would probably have some new Nvidia tech entirely.  

 

The Tegra X2 or whatever its called, is supposedly almost twice the performance/watt of the Tegra X1.

So if you made a new "switch" on 16nm?, instead of todays Tegra X1 (28nm), it would be around double the performance (at same power usage).

393 Gflops -> 786Gflops.

Thats still less than half of the PS4.

Even 5 years from now,.... with a Nvidia Tegra X3? and maybe 7nm, I suspect it ll still be abit weaker than the current PS4.

You are talking about a five year span here. Tegra will likely not even be labeled "X-whatever" then. I suspect an "X3" would be long old technology, and the x-series analogous to the non-K/X series today. 

 

Again Tegra 2 had a max of 7 GFLOPS in 2011 and the X1 500 GFLOPS in 2016. Even if Moore's Law slows its pace for GPU technology like it has for CPU's (which is a wild prediction), it is unreasonable to believe that it will slow that much.

 

Switch's successor is going to easily be more powerful than a base PS4, and likely will match or exceed a PS4 pro.