By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
caffeinade on 09 May 2018
Edit Thread
HoangNhatAnh said:
caffeinade said:

There is no information on an X3 out there.
No product has been confirmed (that I know of).
Can you prove that another low power Tegra is being made?

Xavier is the closest thing to an X3 we know of.
Xavier doesn't look to be a good fit for the Switch.
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-drive-xavier-soc-detailed/

I don't know about you, but I don't think a 350mm^2 SoC going inside a Nintendo portable.
The Switch isn't an autonomous vehicle.

It isn't like there won't be a small custom X3 chip which is made especially for New Switch 

It isn't like there will be.
There has been no confirmation of such a chip.

It'd probably have to be very custom, to fit the Switch's needs.

JRPGfan said:
caffeinade said:

There is no information on an X3 out there.
No product has been confirmed (that I know of).
Can you prove that another low power Tegra is being made?

Xavier is the closest thing to an X3 we know of.
Xavier doesn't look to be a good fit for the Switch.
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-drive-xavier-soc-detailed/

I don't know about you, but I don't think a 350mm^2 SoC going inside a Nintendo portable.
The Switch isn't an autonomous vehicle.

350mm^2 is Huge..... noway thats going into a new switch.

also "The chip delivers 1.3 TFLOPs of peak FP32 performance"  "The chip delivers all of this compute at just 20W".

That doesnt sound impressive to me.

AMD's 2500U is probably better suited for gameing than this Huge Soc from Nvidia called Xavier is.
And that ll be a small cheap chip, compaired to this one (thats designed for cars).

Maybe Nintendo Switch's to AMD APUs for the next Switch?

Yes, 350mm^2 is massive for a mobile SoC, and is roughly acceptable for a high end GPU.
The GTX 1080 takes up 314mm^2 on TSMC's 16nm.
Xavier wasn't designed to impress you.
It has eight cores, all of which sound like they are going to be reasonably powerful.

AMD, Nvidia, or even Intel, it is all up to Nintendo.
It sounds like Nintendo is really into Nvidia right now.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing for them, Nvidia can design a better mobile SoC (if Nintendo is willing to pay for it).

Last edited by caffeinade - on 09 May 2018