Standard 2014 Tegra X1 'confirmed' as Switch's processor

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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.

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