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Darc Requiem on 06 March 2021
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Leynos said:
Darc Requiem said:

I have a hard time buying that. That's Nvidia's cutting edge SoC. Nintendo tends to go with older more established hardware. Maybe for a true Switch successor but for a revision, ORIN would be far too much. I think at most they'd go with Xavier. It's Volta based so it would a Tensors which are necessary for DLSS. Volta is two gens old, architecture wise, for Nvidia. Plus it would address one of the biggest developer complaints about Switch. Memory bandwith. While hardly blisteringly fast. Xavier has 5 and half times (136.5GB/s) the bandwidth of Tegra X1 (25.6GB/s).

Xavier has too high a wattage. There is a 15 watt Orin variant. Better performance for less power consumption.

Ampere is not exactly known for it's power efficiency. It's actually considered the weakness of the architecture. I wonder what they couldn't get out of a 15w Ampere SoC.

Edit: @hinch I agree with you on the node size situation. Whatever Nintendo chooses, they are going to be on node that isn't in high demand. With the way the Switch sells they can't afford to have the same issues as Sony and MS. AMD isn't TSMC's first priority. Apple is, so any node Apple is on will be one Nintendo avoids.

Last edited by Darc Requiem - on 06 March 2021