Eagle367 said:
Yeah I heard that switch CPU is more powerful than ps4pro. I don't know about that but it's definitely more powerful than ps4 |
Switch is 4 Arm A57 at 1ghz which is about 17,000 mips however the Switch uses 1 core purely for the operating system which brings it just below 13,000 mips for games. The wii u for example has 9,000 mips but has a dedicated arm chip to runs its operating system so remains at 9,000 mips for games. This puts the Switch well below Xbox 360 and PS3 let alone comparisons with Xbox one or ps4. While mips only gives a general guide to performance it is actually known to inflate the performance figures of ARM chips because they are RISC and have a smaller instruction set than some other chips like x86. Generally a x86 processor mips rating would be a more powerful chip than an ARM at the same figure but this all depends on application. The Switch basically sits between wii u and Xbox 360 in cpu performance. There is no doubt though that the technology is superior in Switch. It achieves performance just below Xbox 360 with 4x 1ghz Arm A57s but the Xbox 360 has 6 threads at 3.2ghz on its powerpc cpu. So if you did a unorthadox sum of mhz. The Switch almost achieves 360 performance at 4ghz what takes the 360 close to 20ghz (6x3.2ghz) to achieve. If Nintendo had kept the Arm A57's at the same speed as the Nvidia Shield box 2ghz then the Switch would have shot past the 360 in performance but sadly they didn't. This would have bought it up to about 2/3rds the cpu speed of ps4/xbox one cpu's making it easier to run more sophisticated game engines even if the output graphics were weaker in comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microarchitectures











