Pemalite said:
twintail said:
Unless for some reason you know a PS4 could be housed into a Switch-esque body at a reasonable price point and/ or of battery tech that allows for feasible playing experience on the go for something like a PS4.
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Sure.
I don't think people realize how inefficient the Playstation 4 SoC is. - You don't actually need a chip that is identical to the PS4 chip to achieve the same outcome.
Ergo. You don't actually need a 1.8 Teraflop chip.
The Playstation 4 chip was outclassed even on it's release, all of these years haven't exactly been kind to the Graphics Core Next 1.0 architecture or those based upon it. It's old, it's slow, it's inefficient, it's hot, it's power hungry... Vega and Polaris are significantly more energy efficient, but still pale in comparison to say Maxwell or Pascal, let alone Volta.
CPU wise, Ryzen slaps Jaguar every day of the week, throw it down on 12nm, get aggressive with binning, consolidate some other parts of the system into the SoC, lower clocks and voltages... And bobs your uncle.
And then get aggressive with battery chemistry, LiCoO2 or LiMn2O4 are good candidates or maybe even LiNiMnCoO2.
The Switch's battery is good for 4,300mAh.
4x 18650's could provide 12,000mAh.
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Care to explain why Nintendo went with a modified Tegra 1 instead of a Tegra 2 variant in the Switch?
Care to break down how much say a Vega. or Pascal / Ryzen based APU would cost compared to the current cost of the PS4's APU?
Care to mention how much "4x 18650's" cost vs the Switch's battery, how the size of the batteries compare, and if these 18650s require any additional shielding or protection circuitry to prevent portable PS4 portables from maiming their users if something goes awry?
No one's really questioning whether the technology is there. There's $1200 laptops less than an inch thick with X86 processors, and AMD GPU solutions that will eat the PS4's lunch and go dead within an hour. No one is disputing that. But now we need to make such technology less than half the size, less than half the price, and double the battery life. So please, sort out the feasibility of making such a solution less than say, $400.
