Watt for watt what the Switch 2 can produce at even just under 10 watts when even PC handhelds need like double, triple that just to stretch their legs is fucking crazy actually. The ROG Ally can't do shit with 10 watts even with a much better node and a larger battery and a far larger body size.
Nintendo and Nvidia should be given a shit ton of credit for this design, at 8nm it somehow uses *less* power than most/all PC portables while also having a smaller battery to draw on, and yet it can deliver equal/better results in a lot of games while those PC handhelds are also on a theoretically better nodes (5nm TSMC generally) and is far thinner than those devices on top of that.
They optimized the shit out this 8nm Tegra, even Digital Foundry raves about what it can produce at such a low power envelope and it's not even close to being on a cutting edge node.
Nintendo and Nvidia should be proud of what they've built here, the visuals it can produce at such a tiny power draw is insane, even doubly so when you know it's not doing that be leaning on a cutting edge 3nm or even 5nm process. This thing is definitely a technical marvel when you actually understand what its built on but too many people are stuck in their biases to admit that. They were happy to bring up the nodes for months on end when it meant the machine would be underpowered but when it turns out that Nintendo/Nvidia cooked and got crazy ass performance out of that design through smart optimization, not a single peep about it being an impressive achievement on this board. Quiet as a church mouse. Fairly obvious why that is.
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