What do you want in a Switch 2?

[Leynos]

shikamaru317 said:

Nu-13 said:

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.

It was nearly 2 years old. The first Tegra X1 device released in May 2015, Switch released in March 2017, so 22 months, or 1 year and 10 months. 

If Switch 2 is a 2022 device as I suspect, Nvidia won't have released a successor to Tegra Xavier yet, which means that Switch 2 will likely use a Tegra Xavier based chipset. So unless Nintendo has them make a custom Xavier chip with more power than the most powerful Xavier chip currently (1.4 tflop) through a die shrink, I doubt that Switch 2 will offer more than a 3x improvement over Switch 1.  

Pretty sure Ampere will release in 2020.