Alternate history: Switch a generation earlier

[HoloDust]

Pemalite said:

HoloDust said:

Found some benchmarks from way back, iPad 2012, which has same GPU as Vita, vs Asus Transformer, which has Tegra 3

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/15

It's not the same GPU as the iPad.

Vita used: PowerVR SGX543MP4+
iPad 3rd Gen: PowerVR SGX543MP4
iPad used: PowerVR SGX543MP2

The "MP4 and MP2" denotes how many cores they have for the graphics chip.
The "+" signifies some customizations to the core for Sony.

So whilst they share the same graphics core architecture, there are differences.

Asus Transformer is also not the most optimized or updated variant of the platform either.

Yeah, I know what MP stands for, should've said "has about the same GPU as Vita", since, obviously, Sony did some customization to 543MP4. And even if not, if anything else, I think Vita has dedicated VRAM.

Point of those benchmarks is mostly in comparing 543MP4 to Tegra 3 in real life examples of similar products (with former easily dominating Tegra 3) - and Vita, packing 543MP4+, is probably best you can hope for out of handheld from that time, so Nintendo's a la Switch handheld doubtfully would be  as fast, unless they actually made something like Vita as well. And while Vita was able to pull some impressive games (and even some ports), I don't think that PS360 to Vita difference was as low as PS4XBO to Switch, so any Nintendo's Tegra 3 based "hybrid" would fair even worse.