| Soundwave said: And the PS5/XBox Series X could have used the 6000 series AMD cards which were launching in fall 2020 ... but no one says those are badly outdated at launch (definitely were behind the Nvidia 30 series). |
Microsoft did. Sony's is a little more custom, but may as well be a Radeon 6000 (RDNA2) derived part.
| Soundwave said: I also think Nintendo was targeting holiday 2016 for Switch they just barely missed it. They had nothing for holiday 2016 and were forced to release the NES Classic to kind of fill in the lack of product they had to sell, they just couldn't release Switch at that time probably because the software would not have been ready. |
You think? So you don't have evidence for this hypothesis?
| Soundwave said: The bottom line is the Tegra X1 was still on the very high end of mobile chips for late 2016/2017. It was a better chip that the Apple A10 that was in expensive iPhones and about on par with an Apple A9X which a monster of a chip for an $800 iPad Pro. |
Other chips could beat it in memory transactions, CPU performance (by a country mile) and storage performance.
Adreno 530 could beat the Switch's Tegra X1 as the Tegra X1 in the Switch operates at only 30-75% of it's original clock... And considering the Adreno was already able to outbench Tegra in some benchmarks and get close-enough in others despite the Tegra being in a higher TDP form factor and thus not throttling...
You get the idea.
I think it's a little bit of a misnomer that the Tegra X1 was the best chip for the Switch. - After it got it's clocks massively castrated... It simply wasn't.
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