Bloomberg: New Switch Model With Larger OLED Display And 4K Docked. Production Begins In June.

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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.

Xavier can scale downwards to 15w and even 10w.

hinch said:

Leynos said:

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

Orin isn't designed for consumers products. And Ampere is relatively new to the market and would be cutting edge. Nintendo wouldn't go for that. For costs reasons.

The original Switch SOC is based on Tegra X1 T210 - 20nm (15W) and was clocked considerably lower to meet performance target and portability. Nintendo then released and updated Switch (16nm) based on Mariko which has higher clocks and improved performance.

If they used 10nm Finfet (from 12nm FF) on a Xavier based soc - which is already a product ready and can be built with Tensor cores in mind. But yeah I would say 10nm since everyone (bar Apple) wants a slice of that 7nm pie.

Due to compatibility reasons, I would personally not expect anything more than Tegra X2/Pascal.