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h2ohno on 19 February 2017

Tag. Want to hear what is said now that we finally have hardware pics.



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JRPGfan on 19 February 2017
Nuvendil said:
Barkley said:

Yeah the Shield TV has a fan, the Shield Tablet doesn't.

If I guessed I'd say the Fan would only be used in docked mode, and the underclocked GPU in handheld mode means it can get away with just passive cooling, or worse case scenario a much lower fan speed.

I know at least one guy who played the Switch reported that the fan does function just more sparingly when undocked.  Which does suggest that even undocked the chip can put out some noticeable heat.

Maybe in the future when it gets a die shrink, they wont need the cooling element that the current models have.

Save some battery life that the fan takes up.

 

^ is this the internal 32 GB storage it has?

*googled hac-emmc and yeah it looks like this is flash storage.

 

h2ohno said:
Tag. Want to hear what is said now that we finally have hardware pics.

my first thoughts are its tiny, and looks more like a phone than a console on the inside.



Wyrdness on 19 February 2017
jonathanalis said:
where are tech experts? 16 nm or 20? there are images from x1 and p1 chips?

From what I've read it indicates Maxwell Gen 2.



Trunkin on 19 February 2017
cycycychris said:
I just want to point out how massive the battery is, they have literally put in the biggest battery that they more than likely could fit into the Switch... People might shit on the battery life, but it really looks like Nintendo tried there best to stretch it out as far as there design would let them.

That is true. It looks like they used every inch of available space in there.

It also looks like the battery is very easily accessible, which is a huge plus for me.



JRPGfan on 19 February 2017
cycycychris said:
I just want to point out how massive the battery is, they have literally put in the biggest battery that they more than likely could fit into the Switch... People might shit on the battery life, but it really looks like Nintendo tried there best to stretch it out as far as there design would let them.

yeah it looks almost as big as possible.

I think I can read 4310 mAH (millie amps) off of it.

Those 3hours of avg battery life though... maybe they should have gone even bigger?

 

still Im kinda impressed something this small:

can run games that look like this:

 

Mobile phone tech has come along way.



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JEMC on 19 February 2017
cycycychris said:
jonathanalis said:
where are tech experts? 16 nm or 20? there are images from x1 and p1 chips?

The only thing I can guess from looking at this is that the 2 boxes above the nvidea chip are probably the the RAM, suggesting 4GB.

Do 2GB RAM chips exist? I thought the highest ones were 1GB.



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dahuman on 19 February 2017

So the question right now is, how customized is it? Is it still Maxwell at the core or a Pascal? Did they customiz the memory controller from 64bit from the Maxwell to the 128bit that the Pascal has even if it's still running on Maxwell? The memory question is the most important one because you'd be going from 25.6GB/s to 50GB/s. Also, how big is the cache on the die?



dahuman on 19 February 2017
JEMC said:
cycycychris said:

The only thing I can guess from looking at this is that the 2 boxes above the nvidea chip are probably the the RAM, suggesting 4GB.

Do 2GB RAM chips exist? I thought the highest ones were 1GB.

Max is 4GB @ 3200MHz



numberwang on 19 February 2017

You can buy the Switch soon and we still don't know how much memory is in there... just Nintendo things.



BlkPaladin on 19 February 2017

On the reddit thread someone is saying since it is smaller then the X1, so it is at least made with the 16nm process, the X1 is 20 nm, But since it is a custom chip there isn't much else you can glean from it then that.

Plus one of the people who covered this on youtube said that it is nice to know once the warentee expires on this it looks like it would be "easily" repairable if you have some tech savvy since most of the part are on seperate pieces so they can be changed out.