I suspect he means 500 GFLOPS (FP32). 1 TFLOP would be the FP16 number, which is more of a hypothetical peak, FP32 is what you would use to compared to other game consoles.

A Tegra X1 still runs very hot for gaming, the Shield Console for example runs at almost 20 watts when running a game, that's waaaaaaaaaaay too hot for a portable device, that would kill a monster sized battery in under 2 hours.

My guess is they are getting Tegra X1 performance more or less (which is 500 GFLOP FP32/1 TFLOP FP16), but they just die shrunk to the chip to 16nm and added some architectural improvements from the Parker X2.

That would bring down your energy consumption to 7-8 watts for that level of power most likely, much more reasonable.

A teraflop would be pretty awesome to breach on a system which can be picked up in your hands and played with on the bathroom, would be nuts. Considering that the Vita comes in at around the 38GFLOP mark.

500 GFLOPS actual performance is more realistic.

The Parker X2 isn't even a 1 TFLOP chip, it's 750 GFLOPS.

What I think he got mixed up with is FP32 and FP16. Nvidia touted the Tegra X1 as a 1 TFLOP processor too, but they were kinda lying because they're using a FP16 number to get that.

Lol.

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2017

1TF? Isn't that going to make the Switch a tad bit expensive, lads?

The thing is there is no distinction between handheld and console mode.  It's plausible the higher numbers are upclocked in console mode.
In fact, if they're aiming for basically the same game experience, not so much the CPU but the GPU would be the focus, for more res/FX.

Pascal definitely looks like more obvious choice.

Nvidia will offer the best they could do to make a deal with Nintendo with reasonable price, I guess

This is not a rumour, just speculation on what is likely.

A nice write up but people are simply looking at the upper limits of what is possible with the Tegra x2 without taking into account the practical application of it within the Tablet. Battery and Overheating will lower those paper specs to something a bit weaker. Anything approaching 1TF is Fantasy.

Pascal in Notebooks is crazy fast while still using relatively small amounts of energy. I have no doubt at all that nVidia can also do wonders on a tablet. They're running circles around AMD right now, a lot of people will be impressed by what the Switch can do (but very few will admit it =P)