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Conina on 26 December 2017
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TheBraveGallade said:
KBG29 said:

AMD can deliver a chip right now that offers a CPU multiple times more powerful than the PS4's with better than XBO level GPU power at 15 Watts. Shrink that down to 7nm in 2019, and add an even more effecient Ryzen design and Navi based GPU, and they will have a chip with an even greater performance gap on the CPU side, and well above PS4 level GPU with less than 10W power consumption. 

15 watts? Try harder. The switch draws 11 watts docked running full tilt. Probably a lot less portable. And it still only lasts 3 hours.

Edit: in fact, the switch draws 7 watts undocked at minimum brightness.

Even less than 7 Watts. The Switch has a 16 Wh battery (4310 mAh at 3.7 Volts) and the lowest battery time I have seen in demanding games (Zelda BotW) at full brightness and everything on is 2:37 hours. 16 Wh / 2:37 h = 6.1 Watt for the full system, including the display.

With low brightness it can play Zelda BotW for over 3 hours. 16 Wh / 3:05 h = 5.2 Watt for the full system, including the dimmed display. So the SoC for itself won't need more than 5 Watts.

So a SoC that needs 10 Watts undocked would need the double battery capacity for acceptable 2:30 to 3 hours battery life in demanding games. That is possible in a handheld formfactor (see GPD Win 2 with a 37 Wh battery), but it would make the handheld/hybrid even heavier and clunkier than a Switch. I don't know if Sony wants to go that way, they always tried to make their mobile devices as light and comfortable as possible.

Last edited by Conina - on 26 December 2017