Darc Requiem said:
Interesting article. Based on some of things they've I don't necessarily share their conclusions. If its a half gen upgrade Tegra X2 could provide that sort of performance jump if it runs at full clocks. The X1 in the Switch only has around 75% of the power it could have. 393 GLOPS instead of 512 GFLOPS. It's why the overclocked Switch's see such a performance boost. They are just running the X1 at full clocks. X2 is a 750 GLOPS running at full speed. That's nearly double the Switch's reduced clocks but the main issue is DLSS. Pascal based GPUs lack Tensor Cores. Those are needed to run DLSS. If it weren't for multiple reliable sources insisting on DLSS the X2 would be a no brainer. Maybe they could have an additional chip added to handle it? Not sure how feasible that would be. With Xavier they could just use an off the shelf design. Even under clocked like the X1 it would be more powerful than a X2. Very curious to see what will ultimately go into the revision. Side note: Given how old the Maxwell architecture is at this point maybe its just being sunset. It's 5 generations old. Its been succeeded by Pascal, Volta, Turing, and now Ampere. Nintendo may not have the option of using the old SoC any longer. |
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If that's the case, then do you think Nintendo will intentionally force developers to limit future games' capabilities to what the original chip could handle? If this is like the Switch update 1-2 years ago that they kept low-key, then they would have a device that could handle better performance, but won't in order to not alienate the player base.
