| LordGustang said: Acceptable? That's just adorable. You need to watch side by side to notice any difference and even then it's extremely minor. That's how far we are into diminishing returns. The Switch 2 is 40-50% as powerful as a ps5 yet there's only a minor difference. In the past, there would be a world of a difference between a console and another 2-2.5x more powerful. It is what it is and also what the mass market will see. People will see the Switch 2 running the same games as the ps5 and xsx, being cheaper, having the huge benefit of portability on top of being a home console. |
If we're talking raster, a docked Switch 2 is more like 20-25% of a PS5. Ampere has an appreciably lower IPC than RDNA2. These are architectures of a similar age in similar nodes, both of which are 5-6 years old at this point, there aren't going to be any miracles here when you dramatically lower the power budget.
That's in the ballpark of the gap between the docked Switch and the PS4, really, given the slightly higher IPC for Maxwell microarchitecture vs. GCN 1.1 back then. The difference is that the Switch was released a year earlier vs. the home consoles back then while the Switch 2 is kind of late.
Of course, on the other hand, game engines are much more scalable at the lower end nowadays.
