PS4 level performance in a mobile chip is nothing that amazing to be honest.
The Apple A16 Bionic chip in iPhone 14 Pros is 2 teraflops (above the PS4) already and this chip will be 2 years old when the Switch 2 launches next year, the M1 chip inside iPads is beyond that already too.
When the Tegra X1 launched in 2015 it was basically equal to the cutting edge Apple chip of the time (Apple A9X that was for the iPad), actually technically it was better than any mobile chip since the A9X didn't come out for another 6-7 months after Tegra X1.
The M series of chips from Apple is interesting because they can flat out run PC games basically by emulating them (so through sheer raw grunt power, which is an incredible display of how powerful those chips are). It's theoretically entirely possible that you'll be seeing iPads that can run modern PS5/XBSX games if they continue using M-series chips.
Here's a video on that ... Apple is making something called a Game Porting Toolkit for the M1/M2 processors which allows DX12 games like Cyberpunk and Diablo 4 to be played on Macs (and potentially iPads)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tZhiEUGCzIE
Last edited by Soundwave - on 31 August 2023
