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Standard 2014 Tegra X1 'confirmed' as Switch's processor
Posted on 3/19/17 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 3/19/17 at 4:11 pm
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The final piece of the puzzle has seemingly fallen into place. Hardware analysis site Tech Insights updated its own Nintendo Switch teardown with die-shot photography of the new console's Tegra processor, mooted as a custom design by the platform holder. Only here's the thing - the configuration is a match for the standard Tegra X1, as seen in the Shield Android TV.
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This week, we bought the new Tomb Raider 2013 port for Shield Android TV - a conversion carried out by Nvidia's own internal Lightspeed Studios (there's some media and analysis of it in the video below). On the face of it, the conversion work isn't bad at all, but it is rendering at 720p, and it moves with a truly off-putting jerkiness owing to a complete lack of frame-pacing. Our frame-rate measurements peg it at a constant 30fps, but the complete lack of consistency makes it look as though it's running a lot slower. This is almost certainly a by-product of the Tegra X1 operating within the constrained environments of the Android OS. Nintendo's own porting work with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild achieves much more at the same resolution, even running at reduced clocks in mobile mode. Alongside Shin'en Multimedia's brilliant Fast RMX, whatever 'secret sauce' Nvidia and Nintendo have cooked up here has produced a transformative effect on what is seemingly the same hardware.
Eurogamer - Tegra X1 'Confirmed' For Switch
YouTube - DGF - Tegra X1 'Confirmed' For Switch
Hoping Nintendo releases a dock with dGPU upgrade in the future. Just to give this unit longevity.
This post was edited on 3/19/17 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:41 pm to LSU Coyote
Would love to hear about the secret sauce in the firmware or runtime.
Not sure why this would upset anyone. Not like Nintendo's ever going to value speeds and feeds over game design.
Not sure why this would upset anyone. Not like Nintendo's ever going to value speeds and feeds over game design.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:50 pm to Broseph Barksdale
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Not like Nintendo's ever going to value speeds and feeds over game design.
They really don't need to. They just produced one of the highest rated games of all time on systems that rank well below the Xbox One in raw horsepower.
When it comes to game design, few can top Nintendo's internal dev teams.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:53 pm to LSU Coyote
$300 lololololol
Good thing the games are good
Good thing the games are good
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:56 pm to LSU Coyote
Plastic screen
Tegra X1
$300
checks out
Tegra X1
$300
checks out
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:57 pm to Cs
Yes but it is about longevity and titles.
Over looking the problem with old hardware.
Over looking the problem with old hardware.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:06 pm to LSU Coyote
I don't think it's going to be much of an issue.
The Tegra SoC is highly scalable, and it's probably why Nintendo ultimately decided to go with NVIDIA. I can easily see a situation in 2-3 years where you have the Switch selling for ~$199, with a $299 "Switch Pro" sporting A72 ARM cores with a Pascal/Volta based GPU.
The Tegra SoC is highly scalable, and it's probably why Nintendo ultimately decided to go with NVIDIA. I can easily see a situation in 2-3 years where you have the Switch selling for ~$199, with a $299 "Switch Pro" sporting A72 ARM cores with a Pascal/Volta based GPU.
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