Confirmed Nintendo Switch is using stock Nvidia Tegra X1, no modifications.

Benja81 · Mar 17, 2017

rickwj324 said:
All the more reason to buy a WiiU!
I think I play GC games on my WiiU more than I play the actual WiiU games.

Playing GC on the WiiU is awesome, I just did a run through of original WW. I'm normally amazed when I think about that I can play NES, SNES, N64, GC, DS, Wii, and WiiU games on one console, pretty awesome, easily worth the WiiU purchase.

But still there is some disappointment because we can't bring the WiiU in all the places we can the Switch, which was the entire sell of the console.

Yil · Mar 17, 2017

Benja81 said:
Playing GC on the WiiU is awesome, I just did a run through of original WW. I'm normally amazed when I think about that I can play NES, SNES, N64, GC, DS, Wii, and WiiU games on one console, pretty awesome, easily worth the WiiU purchase.

But still there is some disappointment because we can't bring the WiiU in all the places we can the Switch, which was the entire sell of the console.

Then wii u will remain as the ultimate legacy system.

Benja81 · Mar 17, 2017

Yil said:
Then wii u will remain as the ultimate legacy system.

Like many great things, will be remembered most fondly after its demise.

Xzi · Mar 17, 2017

AtlasFontaine said:
Here's a comparison between OpenGL vs Vulkan on the Shield TV using dolphin, this leads me to believe that the switch is more than capable of runing a gamecube emulator made by nintendo, even more considering the fact that the switch isn't being held back by android like the Shield TV.

Also, the internal res that is in the video on dolphin is 1920x1584, I believe that toning it down to 1080p (1920x1080) or 720p (1280 x 720) will cause greater perfomance.

That's impressive. It runs very smooth after he changes some settings at ~2:25, and I can't get much more than 1080p internal res even out of my gaming PC on Dolphin.

Benja81 · Mar 17, 2017

Good news. Maybe?

[SIZE=5 said:
What did NVIDIA really do here, then?[/SIZE]
It might seem as though NVIDIA just decided to sell Nintendo Tegra X1 chips that it had already designed, but that's almost certainly far from the truth. In NVIDIA's blog post talking up its spot inside of the Nintendo Switch, the company said the following:

The Nintendo Switch's gaming experience is also supported by fully custom software, including a revamped physics engine, new libraries, advanced game tools and libraries. NVIDIA additionally created new gaming APIs to fully harness this performance. The newest API, NVN, was built specifically to bring lightweight, fast gaming to the masses.

NVIDIA also goes on to explain that it has "optimized the full suite of hardware and software for gaming and mobile use cases," citing "custom operating system integration with the [graphics processing unit] to increase both performance and efficiency."

In other words, although NVIDIA didn't seem to do much on the physical chip side of things in support of this design win, it appears to have done much of the heavy lifting on the software side of things.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/16/nvidia-corporations-mysterious-nintendo-switch-chi.aspx

mgrev · Mar 17, 2017

Sonic Angel Knight said:
Umm well i haven't used dophin on my pc since is kinda unable to be used. The fan has issues being consistent so i can't use it for playing games like i want. It is out dated and i been meaning to get it repaired or just replaced. But for the record it sucks in today standards. Intel I7 quad duo 8 Seperate cores Radeon HD graphics, (Which is rendered useless by the intel HD driver) 8GB ram and i dunno if anything else worth mentioning if is just related to dolphin.

Model numbers etc?

daxtsu · Mar 17, 2017

Benja81 said:
Good news. Maybe?

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/16/nvidia-corporations-mysterious-nintendo-switch-chi.aspx

If NVidia wrote significant portions of the OS, no wonder it's so responsive compared to the 3DS and Wii U.

Nintendo's operating systems so far have been pretty sluggish otherwise.

Sonic Angel Knight · Mar 17, 2017

mgrev said:
Model numbers etc?

model number of my pc? Umm HP DV7T or something i guess. Least it what it says on the frame.

DrkBeam · Mar 17, 2017

Yil said:
Then wii u will remain as the ultimate legacy system.

This is a great on the Wii u, you can play perfectly Wii, Wii u and gamecube games there are not emulators compared to the original hardware, for me the 3ds shares the same with gba, Ds, dsi and 3ds games, they run natively

stanleyopar2000 · Mar 17, 2017

Veho said:
So the Switch really is just a rebranded Nvidia Shield Tablet.

This is EXACTLY what I said on the Nintendo Reddit and nobody fucking believed me

Kioku · Mar 17, 2017

stanleyopar2000 said:
This is EXACTLY what I said on the Nintendo Reddit and nobody fucking believed me

So, a MacBook Pro is just a rebranded dell laptop with similar specs..

osaka35 · Mar 17, 2017

stanleyopar2000 said:
This is EXACTLY what I said on the Nintendo Reddit and nobody fucking believed me

again, it's not the tablet. it's much closer to being a mobile version of the shield. different tech.

s157 · Mar 17, 2017

It's a giant vita with more power with detachable sides that can be attached onto something else to simulate a controller and also it can be plugged into a TV and also have a large number of (expensive) accessories and hopefully a plethora of first party games.

Spec-wise, you can compare it to the shield tv. As a whole, there's really nothing like it.

Thirty3Three · Mar 17, 2017

osaka35 said:
again, it's not the tablet. it's much closer to being a mobile version of the shield. different tech.

Closer =/= exactly, kiddo

Oops meant to quote the South Park guy

Xzi · Mar 17, 2017

stanleyopar2000 said:
This is EXACTLY what I said on the Nintendo Reddit and nobody fucking believed me

Well if it makes you feel any better, it's because you were wrong. As has already been discussed in this thread, K1 is what's inside the Shield tablet, and the X1 inside Shield TV and Switch is nearly twice as strong.

Thirty3Three · Mar 18, 2017

Xzi said:
Well if it makes you feel any better, it's because you were wrong. As has already been discussed in this thread, K1 is what's inside the Shield tablet, and the X1 inside Shield TV and Switch is nearly twice as strong.

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lordelan · Mar 18, 2017

DarkOrb said:
That means a good running Gamecube/Wii emulator is very feasable once it's hacked:

I see people bringing Android as dual boot option to the Switch in the future.

Obveron · Mar 18, 2017

If someone could figure out how to boot android TV OS on the Switch, I'd pick one up for sure.

DeslotlCL · Mar 18, 2017

Xzi said:
Well if it makes you feel any better, it's because you were wrong. As has already been discussed in this thread, K1 is what's inside the Shield tablet, and the X1 inside Shield TV and Switch is nearly twice as strong.

Twise as strong as the shield tv? According to op, the switch only has 1 extra gb of ram, the cpu and gpu are clocked lower than the shield tv to ensure consistency...

Xzi · Mar 18, 2017

DespyCL said:
Twise as strong as the shield tv? According to op, the switch only has 1 extra gb of ram, the cpu and gpu are clocked lower than the shield tv to ensure consistency...

No, I mean Shield TV and Switch use X1 which is nearly twice as strong as K1 in Shield Tablet.

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