Looking At Tegra Xavier -- The Next-Gen Switch Chip

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zorg1000 said:

Soundwave said:

The other performance mode for Tegra X2 is double the processing power of Tegra X1 at 15 watts. So for Switch that'd effectively be 384 GFLOPS or whatever x2 at 15 watts (768 GFLOPS). 

so essentially you could release a few different skus of Switch using the X2?

A Switch Slim that is smaller, lighter, more portable, better battery life & Switch Pro that has docked mode level of performance while undocked?

Yes, you could put the X2 in the current Switch casing and make different models from it. If you used the lower-power mode of the X2, you'd basically double the battery life of the system, and since the system is pushing out considerably less heat, yes you could also make the system smaller/thinner if you wanted. 

Or you could use the same chip to double performance if you clicked on performance mode and have double the performance in the same casing size. 

I imagine Nintendo R&D probably has Switch models that have a Tegra X2 doing both and they are testing both out right now. 

My hunch is Nintendo will start releasing Tegra X2 based Switch units next summer or so, the second year of a system is where you want hardware shipments to really ramp up, and Nintendo loves having that new model about 14-18 months post-launch and they have the perfect chip in the X2 to do it with. They'll phase out the X1 Switches as 2018 goes on IMO and replace it with the X2 models.