Soundwave said:
Bofferbrauer said:
Some caveats though:
1. 20W is the TDP, not the consumption, which is likely higher than that.
2. The TFLOPS are in half precision, so cut the numbers by 2 to get single precision.
3. Needs good cooling to keep the chip from throttling down.
4. cutting the CUDA cores down doesn't exactly halve the consumption of the chip. Also, lowering clock speed might be a better way to gain on efficiency.
5. Considering what the Chip is made for, it (sadly) probably comes at a premium price, especially if it needs the platform built around it to actually work.
All in all, what I could see with an X3 based Chip in an upcoming Switch would be twice the performance at most, as too much has to be cut to fit into the handheld.
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X3 would still be way beyond double an X1. The Tegra X2 already doubles the X1.
Xavier would basically be a PS4 portable.
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The X2 is far away from reaching twice the power of the X1. First, the increase is only 50%, and second, that's the best case scenario. In real life, 30% is more probable cause it won't keep it's high clock speed - from which 90% of the performance increase actually stems.
Xavier in Switch would be a PS4 portable - if it would be allowed to run at full speed with full specs outside of the dock. Which the switch probably could... for 10 minutes before recharging!
