XBox Series S Could Be A Nice Bounce For Switch 2

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Soundwave said:

Captain_Yuri said:

The Switch 2 vs Xbox Series S is probably gonna be one of the more interesting comparisons next generation and I am very much looking forward to seeing it. The problem right now is that it's hard to gauge on a lot of things without knowing the actual performance of Series S and RDNA 2 vs Ampere. If I were to guess, the next MX series GPUs for laptops that should come out next year from Nvidia should give us a good starting point for the Switch 2's GPU. If the rumours are true and Ampere gets 4x the ray tracing performance than Turing, then it wouldn't surprise me if Ampere MX gets 2060's ray tracing and tensor core performance.

The other questions would be target resolutions and price. Is the Switch 2 going to be $300 or will they bump that up? Is it still going to be 720p or 1080p?

The big unknown is going to be the CPU as Zen 2 is very strong and Nvidia's ARM cpus in the past have been meh. I am not too worried about SSD speeds as I am sure most third party games are going to be very scalable. All in all though, we should have a good idea about Ampere in about a month or so.

Man is it ever refreshing to have someone actually post a thoughtful discussion on the actual topic. Bravo sir. 

I think Switch 2 will go up to $350. Hardware prices eventually go up and Nintendo already wanted the $350 bracket with Wii U, now that they have confidence in the Switch concept they likely will feel confident enough to go up a tier in pricing. 

Resolution can be all over the place, we've seen DLSS 2.0 examples (hacked versions of Control for PC) where people take even resolutions like 288p and run it at 1080p, so I think it's really just up to the developer. 

Yea I think $350 would be a pretty good price point as well. One thing I am hoping for is they use TSMC's 7nm or lower over Samsung's 8nm by the time the Switch 2 comes out since TSMC's process should be better for performance/watt which is very important for portables especially. With that being said, I do think that going with Nvidia would still be the correct choice even with Samsung's 8nm since Nvidia's architecture most likely will mitigate process deficiencies even against RDNA 2 using TSMC's 7nm. But we will see of course.

God the next few months are gonna be fap worthy in terms of hardware releases.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 10 August 2020