| shikamaru317 said: ^I'm inclined to agree with JRPGfan on this one. Nintendo doesn't use cutting edge tech, Switch for instance used Tegra X1, which was already 2 years old when Switch released, instead of Tegra X2, and then they downclocked it even further, so it's not even a full 512 gflops in docked mode, only 393 gflops docked. So it is highly doubtful that Switch 2 will use Tegra Orin, which isn't expected to release until 2021. Most likely Switch 2 will use Tegra Xavier assuming that Nintendo decides to stick with Nvidia on Switch 2 for backwards compatibility or other reasons. Tegra Xavier products so far have ranged from 614-1410 gflops, so Switch 2 will likely fall towards the mid-high end of that range docked and towards the low-mid end of that range in handheld mode. I guess that Nintendo could surprise us by using Tegra Orin instead, but I am doubtful, a Tegra Orin powered Switch 2 in 2022 would likely cost $400 on release, and I feel like Nintendo will want to aim for $300-350, and I don't think that Nintendo will wait until 2023 to release Switch 2, which makes Tegra Xavier far more likely imo. And a Tegra Xavier powered Switch 2 will likely offer about PS4 graphics docked and Xbox One graphics in handheld mode, but with better CPU performance (pretty sure that Xavier's CPU cores would outperform Jaguar by a fair margin). PS4 Pro tier performance docked won't even be possible on Tegra Orin imo, PS4 Pro is 4 tflop AMD (equivalent to about 3 tflop on Nvidia GPU's, which tend to offer higher performance per flop than their AMD counterparts), and I doubt that Orin will double the performance per watt of Xavier. |
Tegra x1 was not 2 years old when switch came out and was the best they could get on a $299 system. Orin is not a mobile gpu and is too expensive and powerful. If nintendo gets a gpu that's 40-45% as powerful as an orin for Switch 2, it will already match or at least be close to an xbox one x gpu. But it really baffles me that you accept the reality of other consoles having a 5-7x jump but think the switch 2 will only be like 3x more powerful than the switch.
