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[LordOcidax]

According to DF the power efficiency of the Switch 2 is brilliant and the battery is good.

Cyberpunk 2077 max power consumption
Docket ~22.6 Watts
Handheld ~11 Watts
Battery life 2:16 hours (Stress test)

 

[Skifi28]

I thought DF hated the Switch 2. I can't keep up anymore.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Changing their minds on this more than a toxic girlfriend

 

[fallingdove]

I thought DF hated the Switch 2. I can't keep up anymore.

DF are experts in their field when they say good things about the Switch 2 and complete liars and idiots, unfit to live, comparable to Mussolini and the most atrocious forms of animal cruelty when they have any Switch 2 criticisms.

Pretty straightforward really.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Hey! We don't take kindly to positive Switch 2 news around here. Begone!

 

[FalconPunch]

Dudes trying to bury the talk about the shitty switch 2 screen. That being said, the battery life is pc handheld levels of bad. Like og steam deck bad. I know because I have one.

Power efficiency being "good" is a benefit of being an arm derivative and is expected of arm chips. It's not x86 so it's supposed to be more efficient. If it was bad, we'd actually have something to talk about as that'd be unexpected. Now if Nintendo hadn't been cheap bastards, it would actually have been way better on tsmc 5nm. It'd also have a better battery life and be a bit faster.

 

[Azelover]

I guess the checks have finally cleared..

 

[Thief1987]

2.5 hours in a ps3 looking game. Brilliant!

 

[LordOcidax]

2.5 hours in a ps3 looking game. Brilliant!

 

[Buggy Loop]

I thought DF hated the Switch 2. I can't keep up anymore.

Their "predictions" can now be over and they can just test the machine and accumulate real data, thank god finally

They can put down their fucking downclocked 2050 demo in the bin where it belongs.

 

[playbignbox]

I personally don't think the battery life is very good, but it's acceptable within the Switch 2's proposal. They probably didn't want to put a larger capacity battery for fear of making the console bigger and heavier, which would be uncomfortable for children who are an important part of its audience.

 

[Topher]

Battery life has been completely fine for me. Did they say what watt/hour battery it is?

 

[LordOcidax]

I personally don't think the battery life is very good, but it's acceptable within the Switch 2's proposal. They probably didn't want to put a larger capacity battery for fear of making the console bigger and heavier, which would be uncomfortable for children who are an important part of its audience.

Battery tech hasn't improved in years, like the DF guys said. Is impressive what Nvidia achieved with the Switch 2.

 

[Danjin44]

You should know better, in GAF we are not allowed to post any postive threads about Nintendo.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I had to double check what forum I'm on after seeing seeing a positive Nintendo thread

guessing they actually had a chance to test it now

 

[freakhead]

But doesn't a problematic screen dramatically increase battery life?

 

[Buggy Loop]

Battery life has been completely fine for me. Did they say what watt/hour battery it is?

Don't think they did, but its : Switch 2 = 3.78V / 5220mAh / 19.74Wh

Roughtly match for DF's own results at the top

Mario Kart would land 19.9 Wh, Witcher 3 19.8 Wh. Give or take some differences in every bench tests, its pretty spot on.

 

[Topher]

Don't think they did, but its : Switch 2 = 3.78V / 5220mAh / 19.74Wh

Roughtly match for DF's own results at the top

Mario Kart would land 19.9 Wh, Witcher 3 19.8 Wh. Give or take some differences in every bench tests, its pretty spot on.

Ah...yeah, that's where the crazy efficiency is obvious. Impressive compared to other handhelds.

 

[LordOcidax]

But doesn't a problematic screen dramatically increase battery life?

The screen is problematic for the people that don't own the console … I am perfectly fine with the screen.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Ah...yeah, that's where the crazy efficiency is obvious. Impressive compared to other handhelds.

I'm less familiar with Steam deck but as Zathalus told me, Steam deck OLED (newer better?) has ~2.6x the capacity over Switch 2. 50Wh.

For all the kicking and screaming over Samsung 8nm, Nvidia made witchcraft here. Ada's power gating for efficiency is a big help I would imagine, different cuda core density than Orin AGX with 22% less area, custom node with Samsung I would imagine too as per usual Nvidia, god knows exactly what they did but the END RESULT is they engineered it to be very efficient.

And the architecture being "wide and slow" is less impacted by node differences. Narrow and fast benefit the most from better node processes.

 

[Kataploom]

I don't care about handheld play but seeing it running games better than Steam Deck while lasting around the same or better and having almost the same battery life than OG Switch makes me wonder where the problem lies, some people complain about battery life but it's nothing different than what we already had

 

[Topher]

I'm less familiar with Steam deck but as Zathalus told me, Steam deck OLED (newer better?) has ~2.6x the capacity over Switch 2. 50Wh.

For all the kicking and screaming over Samsung 8nm, Nvidia made witchcraft here. Ada's power gating for efficiency is a big help I would imagine, different cuda core density than Orin AGX with 22% less area, custom node with Samsung I would imagine too as per usual Nvidia, god knows exactly what they did but the END RESULT is they engineered it to be very efficient.

And the architecture being "wide and slow" is less impacted by node differences. Narrow and fast benefit the most from better node processes.

My Legion Go S is 55 wh also. I haven't tested it, but ETA Prime says at 15 watts it will last about 2 and a half hours. Switch 2 is about a third the size and gets the same life at half the watt consumption. That's pretty damn good

 

[Fake]

I thought DF hated the Switch 2. I can't keep up anymore.

Nintendo fanboys can't reach a consensus.

 

[Topher]

Nintendo fanboys can't reach a consensus.

It's been a love/hate roller coaster with DF the past few weeks for the diehard Switch 2 fans

 

[LordOcidax]

It's been a love/hate roller coaster with DF the past few weeks for the diehard Switch 2 fans

Not at all, haters are the same in every thread .

 

[Topher]

Not at all, haters are the same in every thread .

That's true. DF haters are everywhere

 

[LordOcidax]

That's true. DF haters are everywhere

They are easy to spot, they hate even in positive threads about the Switch 2... NDS.

 

[Topher]

They are easy to spot, they hate even in positive threads about the Switch 2... NDS.

Some folks have legit criticisms, but a lot of folks complain only when they don't like what they hear.

 

[TGO]

Remember when the PSP battery along with it's disc drive burning it up was considered bad in 2005....

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Some folks have legit criticisms, but a lot of folks complain only when they don't like what they hear.

40 minute tech videos break my brain

 

[lughnasadh123]

Yaaaaay! Will people now please climb down off the cross to give Jesus some breathing room.

 

[AlphaDump]

I had to unsubscribe to their channel bc that rat faced fuck used to eat up my youtube feed. DF does more harm than good with how they play sides.

 

[omegasc]

2 and a half hours may not seem much, but for what it is and does, it's impressive.

 

[iHaunter]

2 hours and 33 minutes is good to you? Like an abuse girlfriend trying to justify your relationship. I didn't even know it was that bad. Glad I didn't fight to get one.