HoloDust said:
What of load of revisionist crap from them - there wasn't anything in the off the shelf market at that point that they've could've gone with - both Qualcomm and Apple had chips in similar performance bracket, but nothing really much above it. |
Don't think the Tegra X1 was a very efficient chip, it did have high peak performance but it wasn't tweaked well to utilize it, the 20nm process in particular was poor.
Those were early days for those kinds of chips too, Nvidia had done the K1 which also had overheating issues and X1.
The more bespoke Tegra T239 which Nvidia made with Nintendo I'm sure is more tuned to specific performance Nintendo wanted, you can already really see this as it can handle PS5-tier games much more easily than the Switch 1 (Tegra X1) could handle PS4 games it looks like. Nvidia is a far, far bigger company these days too so they likely just have flat out better engineers than the era of 2015 or so.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 13 September 2025
