| numberwang said: From the pastebin: https://pastebin.com/V5nTeh4h Tegra X1 on TSMC 20nm is 116mm2, while the Tegra X1+ on TSMC 16nm FinFet is 100mm2. Nvidia Orin (full T234) is 455mm2. If we assume that T239 (= Switch2) is about 50% the area, we end up with a die size of 227mm2 on Samsung 8N. That would be a big boi die. From what I can find on the interwebs, Steam Deck's APU is 163mm² and a desktop 4070 is 294,5mm². |
227mm2 ... is an absurdly large die size. As stated there it's practically double the size of a Tegra X1 (20nm), the Switch 1 launch processor.
Even the Steam Deck APU is only 161mm2 I believe, the bulky Legion Go's APU is not even that large ... 227 mm2 would be so big I'd almost want to see it because it would be huge. There's no way they could keep the Switch's form factor it would have be significantly larger than the OG Switch.
With due respect to Kopite, he got the name correct, but by his own admission he was wrong on the codename (Dane is not Drake), the CUDA cores wrong, the Ada/Lovelace thing wrong ... I mean basically he got everything wrong outside of the name if you look at the Nvidia leak. I dunno, it just doesn't seem to make a lot of practical sense for Nintendo to release a honking Steam Deck sized portable.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 14 September 2023
