How The Switch 2 Could Do 4K@120fps

[JEMC]

OneTime said:

JEMC said:

True, but there's what, one only company capable of making mobile GPUs poweful enough? By the way, that's the kind of low end chip that can go in a handheld/hybrid console like the Switch successor.

And yes, Tegra when it comes to the mobile market has been a failure, but Nvidia has found another market for it with self driving vehicles and AI. Not ideal for a console, mind you, as they focus on computing and the CPU side of it, but it's a template that they can use to make a design that works for Nintendo.

Maybe... but I'd far rather see Nintendo be a cutting edge ARM Mali customer than some using left over bits of Nvidia's afterthoughts.  Maybe they can magic up a custom Nvidia laptop chip that does Tegra backwards compatibility?

Nintendo is known for sticking with its hardware partners as long as possible (their jump to Nvidia was quite a surprise for a lot of people). Therefore, I actually believe that Nvidia's quote about partnering with Nintendo for 20 years isn't based on nothing and, while Nvidia can provide them with the right tools, Nintendo will keep using their products.

The best case scenario I can think of right now is one like what Boffer described, a Switch 2 using 8 Carmel cores with up to 512 GPU cores, at least Turing to be able to use DLS and VRR, and 8GB connected via a 128bit bus.