Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[Bofferbrauer2]

JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Next-Gen Nintendo Switch rumored to feature NVIDIA ‘Ada Lovelace’ GPU architecture

https://videocardz.com/newz/next-gen-nintendo-switch-rumored-to-feature-nvidia-ada-lovelace-gpu-architecture

The leaker is also reliable as he correctly leaked Ampere many months before the official announcement... So if it's true...

There's not enough salt in the world for me to believe that. Nintendo going with the latest hardware? One that hasn't even been announced yet? That would be a first, and also a waste of silicion for "only" a Super or Pro device.

Yeah, that's more like if Nintendo was already shopping for the successor for the Switch, which is not impossible, but even that would take at least a London Eye-sized grain of salt.

Also, if the GPC would stay the same as with Turing (don't know the size for Ampere), then there would be 640 Shader processors compared to 256 right now, so 2.5 times as many. That's the same amount as in the old 1050Ti and MX350 GPUs, but even the MX has a TDP of 20W, way above what something like the Switch could handle in handheld mode without sucking the battery dry in an instant.

So while having 640 SP is not out of question, especially not with a future node, they would need to be seriously tuned down to handle the constrains of a handheld form factor. But between the bigger chip, the higher IPC, the  higher clock rates (Switch clocks so low that it's successor will certainly clock a couple hundred Mhz higher even for handheld mode) and possible other improvements, that could very well result in something between 6-12 times what the current Switch can push in terms of graphics, so about PS4 level in terms of graphics and way enough for a generational uplift.