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Spade on 20 October 2016

^^^Thanks for the info Shika.



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sethnintendo on 20 October 2016
Soundwave said:
Hold that loss AMD theorists. Hold it nice and long.

I'll take it.  It was a decent bet on AMD but I guess I was wrong.



onionberry on 20 October 2016
Slade6alpha said:
Is Nvidia any good? What's the other option, AMD, Intel? Hope they have a dedicated conference for this thing, they must obviously if the thing is releasing in march.

nvidia is better than amd



xl-klaudkil on 20 October 2016

Four ARM Cortex-A57 cores, max 2GHz
NVidia second-generation Maxwell architecture
256 CUDA cores, max 1 GHz, 1024 FLOPS/cycle
4GB RAM (25.6 GB/s, VRAM shared)
32 GB storage (Max transfer 400 MB/s)
USB 2.0 & 3.0
1280 x 720 6.2" IPS LCD
1080p at 60 fps or 4k at 30 fps max video output
Capcitance method, 10-point multi-touch

Supposed dev kit specs.



 

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potato_hamster on 20 October 2016
Ljink96 said:
potato_hamster said:

I hope not. The tegra X1 makes it marginally more powerful than the Wii U, and miles away from the PS4 and X1. Even a custom Tegra X2 wouldn't exactly make Switch games hold a candle in comparison.

Well it's a custom chip, a brand new chip in fact. It might be almost as powerful as a Xbox One which is amazing for a handheld. 

But kinda shitty for a hybrid console that's supposed to replace the Wii U.

Do you honestly think a solid version of RDR2 is possible on the Switch, for example?



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WolfpackN64 on 20 October 2016
shikamaru317 said:
Slade6alpha said:
Is Nvidia any good? What's the other option, AMD, Intel? Hope they have a dedicated conference for this thing, they must obviously if the thing is releasing in march.

Nvidia usually tops AMD performance at any given flops level. So for instance if Switch is 900 gflops in console mode, it could in theory match the 1300 gflops AMD chip in Xbox One. Though I doubt Switch has more than 700 gflops in console mode, maybe only 500 if it's using Tegra X1 instead of X2. 

The tradeoff is that AMD is desperate for deals while Nvidia usually isn't, so Nintendo might have paid alot for these Nvidia chips, and knowing Nintendo they'd pass that cost on to the consumer instead of eating it themselves, meaning a high release price possibly.

That's not how performance metrics work. Performance is absolute. A 1 TFLOP GPU is always more powerful than a 800 GFLOPS one. But absolute metrics are just one thing, both AMD and NVIDIA have some differences in GPU design which can be benificial depending on use case scenerio.

For example, Nvidia's Pascal is a really efficiënt architecture and quite powerful, but AMD's Polaris seems to be better optimized for newer API's and is quite efficiënt to boot.



iNathan on 20 October 2016
xl-klaudkil said:
Four ARM Cortex-A57 cores, max 2GHz
NVidia second-generation Maxwell architecture
256 CUDA cores, max 1 GHz, 1024 FLOPS/cycle
4GB RAM (25.6 GB/s, VRAM shared)
32 GB storage (Max transfer 400 MB/s)
USB 2.0 & 3.0
1280 x 720 6.2" IPS LCD
1080p at 60 fps or 4k at 30 fps max video output
Capcitance method, 10-point multi-touch

Supposed dev kit specs.

it´s Pascal lmao Nvidia said it in the blog.



Werix357 on 20 October 2016
shikamaru317 said:

Wonder what that final AMD semi-custom gaming chip is for then? New Sony handheld? Sega comicg back into the console market? Xbox VR headset with it's own chipset?

Wasn't Amazon rumored to making a console?



SonytendoAmiibo on 20 October 2016
onionberry said:
SUPERMETALDAVE 64 ON SUICIDE WATCH

 

You can be so mean when your right. I am actually hyped for the Switch. Day one purchase for me. This system makes my Vita look like my grandmother's portable.

   

Hey! They got SONY on my amiibo! Wait a minute. Two great gaming tastes that game great together!

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FunFan on 20 October 2016

"The high-efficiency scalable processor includes an NVIDIA GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards."- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

This implies Pascal.



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