Captain_Yuri said:
I was talking about this the other day in the PC thread and had a wild idea. I'll post that here:
One thing I will say is after seeing the Steam Deck, it will be interesting to see if Nintendo goes AMD and x86 instead of going Nvidia and Arm at some point in the future.
The benefit would certainly be that it will be even easier to port games over to the switch and x86 is getting to the point where the power efficiency is good enough. And considering the Volumes Nintendo is able to sell their products vs someone like Valve, I am sure they would get a bigger discount than what Valve is getting with their Steam Deck.
Even if the Switch 2 has Zen 2 + RDNA 2 specs similar to the Steam Deck, it would be quite powerful as we have seen the Steam Deck being able to run Ghostrunner with Max settings + Ray Tracing at above 30fps. With the low level API and optimizations you can do on a console, they can get even more juice out of it while having decent battery life. Of course the problem would be that whatever Gimmick Nintendo would plan would sink into the cost. So that would probably be the biggest issue unless they want to sell the Switch 2 for $400.
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AMD Ryzen 7 6800U is 15-28watts TPD (Zen3+, 6nm APU)
It 8 cores /16 threads, @ 3,4 ghz (8cores) and upto 4,7ghz with 1-2 cores.
The iGPU in it, is called Radeon 680M (RDNA2), and it tops out at 3,4 Tflops (FP32) and 6,8 Tflops (FP16).
It uses dual channel LPDDR5.... and has USB4.
Might be a slight exageration, but I think this would be like 10 times the performance of a Switch.
If Nintendo choose to use a chip like the 6800U for a Switch 2.
Next year, there should be a 7000 series, thats on the 5nm, with Zen4.
At some point, if nintendo decide its time for new hardware, they can do a hardware jump of x10 quite easily imo.
The question is, what is nvidia doing in this mobile space?
Do they have anything compairable, at these wattages? Havn't heard of anything new in the mobile space, from Nvidia in awhile.
Last edited by JRPGfan - on 21 February 2022
