curl-6 said:
| Pemalite said: Considering the Switch is based on Maxwell, it already has a few advantages over the base Xbox One/Playstation 4 older GCN derived hardware anyway. - Just the Xbox One and Playstation 4 have far more hardware to play with and can brute force their way through things.
The Playstation 4 Pro and Xbox One X don't really shift the effects feature set forwards to much, because they still need to get games built for base hardware, the One X uses a derivative of Polaris however and that has a few advantages. (And is really good at asynchronous compute)
But if Nintendo goes with Pascal/Volta derived Tegra, then the Playstation 5 and Series X should have the better hardware from a feature/effects perspective.
The Switch 2 could be a wild card, Samsung are deploying Radeon graphics in it's SoC's and Qualcomm have very impressive GPU capabilities in it's ARM/Adreno (Radeon based also) SoC's whilst nVidia hasn't been pushing that aspect for a very long time... The goal posts on SoC's has definitely moved on from nVidia.
But Nintendo isn't a consumer like we are, it has lucrative contracts and may contract Orin or the likes from nVidia. |
I'll be happy if Switch 2 is to PS5/XS as Switch 1 is to PS4/Xbone in terms of graphics, personally. I don't need my games to look cutting edge, I'd just rather it be an appropriately substantial leap over its predecessor, which shouldn't be difficult given how old Tegra X1 will be by 2023/2024 when I'd prefer a Switch successor to launch. |
Considering that Tegra X1 was already "old" when the Switch launched... And was further castrated in order to fit a low thermal envelope, I think it's definitely showcased what nVidia's very efficient architecture (Maxwell) was able to achieve... And thus has held up rather well.
Helps that Nintendo leans heavily on art direction.
In saying that, I am hoping the next chip is more cutting edge, I like things to be pushed, we get more hardware for our coin, better looking games, smoother experiences... It's a massive win for all consumers.
But I agree. The next device doesn't need to match the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5... That is simply not happening in a handheld at that time frame.
