Well, Switch Tegra is from 2015, so 2 years before Switch came out and they didn't have a problem to afford them and sell them at profit, probably due to great economy of scales since Nvidia couldn't sell them, I can think something like that can work again for them both. If I'm not wrong this chip we're talking about is from last year so it will be two years by the time it releases.
That's not the Nintendo way they are gonna go for something cheap. My guess that rumor about them talking to other vendors are true or Tegra x2.
Using old school TFLOP measure, the beefier Z1 Extreme ROG is over 8 TFLOPS.
Come on, it's a handheld. I'll make my judgement based on the price.Yeah great for the year 2013.
We have LPDDR4X in Switch OLED but working at half-rate. They can use same memory in stock clocks and already have 2x of bandwidth without do anything. Or slap LPDDR5 and have fun!
Man... Just beware - we was here many times. Nintendo is very focused on software and extracting every last bit of their profitable hardware. They just try to be very effective and profitable.
We have LPDDR4X in Switch OLED but working at half-rate. They can use same memory in stock clocks and already have 2x of bandwidth without do anything. Or slap LPDDR5 and have fun!
(actually LPDDR5X have about the same power draw as LPDDR4X so it's very unlikely I guess)
Man... Just beware - we was here many times. Nintendo is very focused on software and extracting every last bit of their profitable hardware. They just try to be very effective and profitable.
The good news is that games will mostly look and feel excellent, without bugs, no matter on what hardware.
Probably. But considering the inflating cost of everything and the fact that PS5 is being successful at its price, if this thing can attain this kind of performance, the price would be justified. And core gamers wouldn’t step back from it. The big question is how the casual public would react. $400 is a lot of money to ask to play Mario Kart and Pokémon.
Yeah, you're really misguided if you think that people are only playing Mario Kart and Pokemon on their Nintendo Switch.
I’m no tech expert but I don’t think so just based of off the size they’re going for. You can fit like 5 (if not more?) Switch consoles in a Series S and “Switch 2” will probably have the same form-factor as the last one at a similar price-point while also making a profit from day 1.Uhm... does this mean Switch 2 will be ON PAR Series S
And the cycle begins again with a new Nintendo console and the power narrative behind it
No worries. I interpret it as just meaning the baseline power of the system without accounting for DLSS is base Ps4. Then DLSS will be used on top of that;No DLSS?
Not necessarily, these kind of APUs tend to be undercloked even in docked mode (because of limited cooling), and have RAM bandwidth bottleneck (because of using DDR instead of GDDR)Uhm... does this mean Switch 2 will be ON PAR Series S
Nvidia doubled the number of FP32 units per SM with Ampere, so that's why the TF figures are higher. But the performance per teraflop is consequently lower than with RDNA 2. A 1536 ALU Ampere GPU would offer 2.82 TF at the rated clock of the Jetson Orin NX 16 GB (918 MHz). That should put it around PS4 performance in docked mode.
You would need a 7.5 TF+ Nvidia part to compete with the Series S. Something like the 35W RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU. There's no way that's fitting in a handheld.
is that without Tensor core and DLSS. i remember Nintendo partitioned their own Machine learning Image reconstruction a while back
Yes, without DLSS. So you can think of "Pro" like performance being possible with DLSS.
Uhm... does this mean Switch 2 will be ON PAR Series S
But imagine a world where you had ps5 power for Nintendo games… like imagine how insane Zelda would be with all that graphical potential.
With the way Switch OLED is selling at $349, Switch 2 will be $399 minimum
The leak from Nvidia shows they were/are working on a custom SoC for Nintendo that used DLSS.
Would it though? I’m pretty sure it’d look like BotW/TotK in higher res and run better. Pretty easy to imagine.
DLSS is cool, helps a lot in performance, but AMD is much better in delivering more efficient APU to fit into a console.
Let them hype until they realize that the full-scaled chip would never make sense in a mobile console that aims 3 hours+ runtime. We remember this from the Switch launch. Divide the performance number by 2 and we are much closer to reality. I expect an 8 GPU-core layout, the clock rates could be close. That means mobile = Xbox One and docking = somewhat faster than PS4.
Huh? Performance is mostly based on how the game was programmed, hardware capabilities is a secondary factor.
Yes, and I don't believe it.
What is it about it that you don't believe? You think Nvidia just pretended to be hacked?
You're young? Nintendo is not a stranger to powerful systems. It's just been a good minute. They used to compete in power until they realized they could make more money by not lol
This is Nintendo we're talking about, right?
