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Soundwave on 12 September 2023
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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
sc94597 said:

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. 

https://pastebin.com/V5nTeh4h

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. 

The link you posted is very informative.
I hope lots of people visit there.

Regarding the price concern,
SOC cost seems to be less than $50.

SOC for the PS4 was $90.
Series X's were $180~$200 imo.

It's an interesting post for sure, they really go into some real depth with their view on it. If Nintendo could get that chip for that price, you take it and run. From their post https://pastebin.com/V5nTeh4h :

  1. GPU:
  2. 1 GPC/12 SM Nvidia Ampere (GA10F)
  3. 1536 CUDA Cores, 12 RT Cores, 48 Tensor Cores
  4. DLSS 2 and Ray Tracing support (documented in NVN2 API)
  5. Either 1MB or 4MB L2 cache (NVN2 has conflicted details across 2 separate documents)
  6. 660MHz SM frequency at Power Level 3 (4.2W power draw), 2 TFLOPs FP32
  7. 1.125GHz SM frequency at PL1 (9.3W power draw), 3.456 TFLOPs FP32

2 TFLOP undocked, 3.45 TFLOP docked ... yeah I'll take that.