Pemalite said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Orin is rated for a TDP of 65W, that's way too much for a handheld format like the Switch. Also, it's heavily axed towards Deep Learning and AI, too much for it's performance to not become squandered or very hard to tap on (similar to the Cell in the PS3). I'd be more expecting a new Tegra chip with more consumer-related hardware, which NVidia probably wants to develop anyway for it's Shield line of products, which uses the same chips as the Switch does.
In other words, I'm more expecting something with 4-8 Tegra cores (Carmel or Hercules) and 384-512 Cuda Cores (Turing or next-gen) and a 128bit bus of 8-16GB LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 without too many bells or whistles, as they currently are too taxing for a handheld format, even in 7 or 5nm. And that should be enough to get PS4-like performance from a handheld anyway
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Yeah. Nintendo will go where the technology goes. - They don't give a crap about making a clean break and doing what Nintendo does.
But Tegra is still improving.
Orin will be scalable just like Tegra X1/Maxwell.
Configurable TDP's and Semi-Custom alterations are a thing you know.
Tegra Xavier for example has 10w, 15w and 30w operating modes.
Plus we don't have all the information on what Orin actually is.
Bofferbrauer2 said:
But wouldn't that make taking the Switch out of the dock risky? I mean, that should get pretty hot like this...
As for the Surface Pro-X, again, try giving that one consistent high load. 2.1TFlops are it's peak performance, but it's far from holding those under full load. Case in point: It's supposed to be at 2.1 TFlops, but it's graphics score just edges out the UHD 620 in Intel 8250U laptops in 3D Mark's Night Raid graphics benchmark and get's easily beaten by a Vega 8 in a Ryzen 5 2500U despite the latter only claiming 1.1 TFlops.
In other words, the SQ1 at ~7W wouldn't do much better than the Tegra, if at all.
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The emphasis on flops is misleading, it's not the be-all, end-all.
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While Xavier can be configured down, it looses a lot of performance along the way. At 10W, it's GPU performance is barely above Switch under sustained stress, though the CPU is still ways above the A57 in the Switch. If tweaked properly, I think with Xavier one could achieve a 40-50% increase over OG Switch performance at same power draw.
