How could Nintendo implement a Switch Pro?

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BlackBeauty said:

Pemalite said:

They would simply leverage already established technology.
I.E. Pascal based Tegra instead of Maxwell. (like they should have from the start, but that is another discussion entirely.)

If Nintendo retains the use of Tegra however... Don't ever expect 4k.

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.

Problem is that Xavier's design is really not suited for Videogames. The Volta's Tensor cores would be useless in games, hence why there ain't any PC graphics cards with Volta chips on the market, either. Add to this a TDP of 30W, and you can see why Xavier won't make it into a future Switch console.

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.)

While it still uses LPDDR4, Xavier has a 256bit connection instead of the usual 64bit (dual channel), meaning it has a 4 times higher bandwith than what you would normally expect with LPDDR4. It reaches 137Gbit/s, on par with low power GPUs (for instance, an Radeon RX 560 with 16CU only has 112Gbit/s). The GPU is rated at 1.3TFlops, roughly the same as the OG Xbox ONE (1.31, the S is clocked higher and thus a bit faster at 1.4TFlops)

X2 is still much more probable for the reasons cited above. However, with their weakness to Meltdown and Spectre, Nintendo could ask to create a new version without that weakness, and NVidia could very well take some cues from designs that came after X2 for this.

There's also the possibility for Orin, a newly announced Chip in the Tegra line. But since that one is supposed to be 5 times faster than Xavier it probably goes with yet another TDP increase, hence even less likely to be used in a future Switch.