haxxiy said:
There are 8 nm Orins with 16 SMs in the market. They have a 15W configuration that still manages to run at higher clocks than the docked Switch (while being comparable to it power budget-wise).
Cut that in half to 210 MHz, and assuming the voltage is at a minimum, you already get close to an undocked Switch's power budget with an even higher SM count and much faster memory/tensor cores than the Switch 2 is going to have. |
Problem remains this is a massive waste of SMs. You could get the same performance from 8SMs and just clock a bit higher and have a cheaper chip. Why pay for 12SMs, it's a way larger chip, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Like this doesn't even align with things Nintendo has done in the past if that's the argument.
210 MHz, lol, the Wii's 2001-era GPU has a higher clock than that. These are insanely low clocks for a more expensive and much larger chip for no reason. This is like going out of your way to buy a jumbo popcorn at the theater and paying the $6 premium for it and then eating 10% of it, you could have just bought a freaking regular popcorn and not have paid the extra money. And if the argument for doing so is "well I did that because I'm cheap" ... it's like what? lol. How does that make any sense.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 February 2024
