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JRPGfan on 01 January 2020
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Nu-13 said:
JRPGfan said:

"The new Tegra Xavier T194 is capable of pushing out 1.4 TFLOPS at FP32"

That uses ~30watts of power to do so, which is fine, when docked.
Yes thats more or less what I've been saying.

When docked, a Switch 2 will likely be around where the base PS4 is at now.

How did I miss this post yesterday?

You start by ignoring that xavier is probably already around 40-50% more powerful than the ps4's gpu. And while it isn't something made for a switch form factor, IF a switch like device were to release in 2019 using a downclocked xavier, it would be a little above ps4 when docked and switch in portable mode. And that's what could be done now. Nvidea's next set of mobile gpus should come out in 2021, benefiting from years of technology advancements and a die shrink to 7-8nm (maybe even 6).

shikamaru317 said:

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.  

1.5 years then, as the switch was schedule to release in late 2016 with 2015 tech. This is no different than ps4 and x1 releasing in 2013 with 2012 tech and ps5/xsx coming in 2020 with 2019 tech. Each using what's apropriate for their for factor.

*insert facepalm gif here*


Your saying that the Xavier T194 is 1,4 Tflops of FP32 compute.... those are your own words, from a earlier post.

Then you go on to say:

"your ignoreing that xavier is already 40-50% more powerfull than the PS4's Gpu" -Nu-13


Do you know how stupid that sounds? or not realise how much FP32 compute performance the base PS4 model has?
Its sitting at 1840 Gflops of FP32 compute (aka 1,84 Tflops).

Ei. Xavier is still weaker than the base PS4 model's GPU (~30watts).