How strong will Nintendo Switch 2 be in 2027?

[JRPGfan]

bowserthedog said:

JRPGfan said:

1) Yes by 2027 I think Nintendo should be working on a 3rd model too.
Its way to late to release a switch 2, if they want any multiplats at all after 2020.

2) No, by 2027 you still wont be able to a handheld as powerfull as a xbox one x.
Xbox One X, can use 180watts of power..... its just not going to happend, you wont see a portable reach that powerlevel even by then.

10 years is a long time.

Xbox one OG is 120 watts and only roughly twice as powerful as Switch.   Don't see how pointing today'd wattage for Xbox One X will have any relevance in a decade.

OG Xbox One is more than twice as powerfull..... its atleast 3.3 times in terms of compute. However look at stuff like Memory Bandwidth.
Switch = 25gb/s   vs  Xbox One = 68.3gb/s + 102 Gb/s (from Esram).
The Xbox also has a stronger CPU and a HDD.

A more heavy compute switch would be memory bandwidth starved, and adding better memory bandwidth would drive up such a Switch 2.0 power consumption.

Also lets keep it fair:

Xbox One X is the cloested xbox released to the Switch. So if you want to talk power effiency lets use that.
Its 6 Tflops and ~180watts.

Switch is 393 Gflops and ~18watts.

Xbox One X is ~15.3 times the power of the Switch, and uses ~10 times the power.

ergo the Xbox One X is more power effecient than the Switch is, dispite the switch going for low power low memory bandwidth ram, not haveing a HDD ect.

 

There is no way a future Switch, in the near future (even by 2027) is able to do what the Xbox One X does now.