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Nuvendil on 01 July 2018
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Pemalite said:
BlackBeauty said:

Xavier which is the successor of the tegra X is 8K capable. Currently only used in machine learning and cars atm so was the switch processor.

So really..,we have already seen the switch successor but in other things. 

Switch SOC was also in Google Pixel tablet.

It is capable of outputting 8k.
It does not have the capabilities of rendering modern games at said resolution, Do not conflate the two.
The fact it still uses LPDDR4 just reinforces that fact, the chip simply lacks the bandwidth to handle high resolutions. - Expect 1080P and less for that chip for most games.

The launch Xbox One for instance is technically capable of outputting at 4k, but that box struggles to even maintain 1080P.

As for Xavier... That is two generations of Tegra SoC's ahead of the Switch. (Switch uses Tegra X1, Tegra X2 is Pascal, Xavier is Volta based.)

 

Xavier also has a very big silicon footprint and a hard leaning into CPU improvements. It is not viable for nor intended for mobile consumer electronics and definitely not a Switch kind of device. X2 is the obvious Switch Pro chip. It brings improved memory bandwidth (iirc), higher power and heat efficiency that allows for much better clocks, CPU improvements, etc. Pair an X2 with an increase to 6GB of RAM (with the OS taking up just under 1 GB, that leaves 5 GBs for games), and you have a very nice upgrade for a Switch Pro to help extend the platform's life. But if Nintendo wants to continue with Nvidia beyond the X2 for the Switch successor, it will have to likely be with bespoke chip sets developed in collaboration between Nintendo and Nvidia.

Last edited by Nuvendil - on 01 July 2018