Soundwave on 17 April 2017
| fleischr said: It's possible to hookup an external GPU via USB-C/Thunderbolt to a laptop. There's actually a lot of those out in the marketplace. I don't see why that couldn't be done with the Switch. The only challenge would be in making in small enough and with enough cooling power - which would be rather easy if you simply have an extra 1-2 Tegra X1s in there. It's a clear winning proposition. Nintendo gets more 3rd party support. Publishers get to put games on the best-selling platform. nVidia sells more GPUs. The only drawback is possibly having some games that don't support portable mode - but that can easily be overcome somewhat with a PS Vita remote play like solution. |
Or perhaps Nintendo could sell a battery pak for the Switch which lets the Tegra X1 in it run at full tilt for about 3 hours for portable mode of these higher end games.
So 400 GFLOPS (roughly) for the portable mode (540p-720p resolution)
And maybe 1-1.5 TFLOP inside the dock? (overclocked Tegra X2?).
