So... something big 'apparently' appears to be coming from Nintendo

[fleischr]

Conina said:

fleischr said:

nVidia's been trying to push external GPU setups for a long while - but they largely haven't worked out from a value proposition standpoint. They're also kind of bulky.

Now if you adopt the Tegra X1 into an external GPU - it's smaller, cheaper and still  more power-efficient than your typical external GPU. All the same, you can double the Switch performance to nearly 2 TF in this way and gain AAA support. All with a simple dock upgrade.

So how would the SoC in the dock sync/transfer the data fast enough with the SoC and the memory in the Switch? Over USB type-C ? Not fast enough!

That's precisely how nVidia's current external gpu offering (Razer Core) works though : via USB-C/Thunderbolt

And since it's only an extra Tegra X1 rather than a full GPU it's already a lot leaner of a setup than working with a GTX1080 in external form.

So it'll work fine - it's a solution nVidia has worked on for a long time already.