Soundwave said: Updated the title to fix the error there. Lovelace did start shipping in fall 2022 (Nvidia 40 series cards), so if the Switch 2 is fall 2024, it would be a two year gap there ... it isn't actually too far off from the Tegra X1 releasing in 2015 (Maxwell 20nm process), and Switch launching in early 2017 I guess (probably not unreasonable to think Nintendo was targeting holiday 2016 and just missed it due to software not being ready). The other can of worms Lovelace opens up is it would potentially open the door to DLSS Frame Generation (I said potentially) as that is supported by Lovelace architecture which could alter performance quite a bit in a good way. |
A person on reddit posted a very detailed speculation for why they think 4nm makes the most sense from both a business perspective and a technological one and for both Nintendo and Nvidia.
The prices of NVMe drives have been crashing in the last 6 months or so. A regular consumer can get a 512GB one for about $25, and Nintendo will get it even cheaper.