BlackBeauty said:
WolfpackN64 said:
Ah, I see, well of course we see that systems like the Switch are powerful enough to allow for high quality experiances on the go. That's not really due to a shrinking technology gap, more due to diminishing returns on graphic power vs graphic quality.
You see, portable technology like smartphone chips quickly rose in power compared to old cellphones, but the latter basically used embedded chips with a much smaller power envelope, wheras companies like Qualcomm keep pushing the envelope in power, but also in power consumption (as demonstrated with the Snapdragon 8cx).
I wouldn't be surprised if a Switch folowup would use Qualcomm's tech in the future since it has become so powerful. But it has also become so powerful because they scaled the tech up.
And with transitor shrinks becoming ever more difficult and probably flatlining at 3nm. We have a few more rounds of increasing hardware efficiëncy to go from the low end to the high end products before all perf/watt improvements will come from architecture.
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They are not going to use Qualcomm. Nintendo signed a LONG term deal with Nvidia.
besides its better anyways because tegra gpu is leagues ahead of the snapdragon chips. Only RECENT Apple SOCs are better than tegra.
When the X1 came out in 2015, it had the most powerful mobile gpu on the market beating pretty much every soc on the market including apples.
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Yeah I think they are going with the Tegra X2 it has the same footprint. Hell they could even offer a service to just replace the board in existing Switches. It has an option of 1.5x performance or 2 times more energy efficient. So they could us it in both a Lite and Pro version. Handheld only use it just for Battery life and for the Pro use it for 50% more performance.
