Exactly. We still only have educated guesses. I base mine on the fact that the machine can only go up to around 10W undocked and 15-25W when docked and fan-cooled at that thickness (or it will eat batteries in seconds/melt), so knowing the clocks and the architecture can give me a fair idea on how beefy it is.
Well shieeeet, 1.1TFlops would be a fucking bargain if the rumors about price at ~$250 are true.
Nah they'd already be yelling it out in a thousand ads if it was more powerful than XB1 and PS4. Especially considering it's likely to be cheaper than either.
The X1 hits 500 gflops FP32 at 11W real-life TDP, 1 tflop is feasible at circa 20W and double the Maxwell cores, that's the ballpark. This can be done.
No, it can't. It'd take too much power on Maxwell, it wouldn't be able to function as a portable and it would require quadruple the cores of the X1 - we're not getting that.
Keep in mind that I'd have to do some math to confirm the figures, but it works in my head as long as we have a fan and a thin heatsink or headspreader in there. As long as the device is kept under 25W docked, it could reach the figures stated without melting.
There's only so fast I can type on a cellphone. As for third-party support, I'll believe it when I see it. Undocked mode is a huge bottleneck, even if the games will run at 720p in that scenario, and the games will suffer from it. It very well could be Wii U 2.0 for all we know, everything depends on whether the device is adopted by consumers.
I'm sure they'll cut costs every possible way, and shrinking the lithography would allow for lower TDP, so it makes sense on a chip that's already custom.
Correct. If it goes full blast with the fan on and no dock or no charger connected, expect it to drain the battery within an hour at most. We don't know what kind of battery this thing had, but I doubt it's any different than the average tablet, and at twice the drain you get half the battery life, plain and simple. It'd be suicide for a developer to make a game that effectively can't be played.
Seems you were indeed right, Pascal and Maxwell arent too different, however, and if its a custom X1 it has the latest iteration of maxwell. I'd be surprised for them to not to make the custom X1 be 16nm over 20nm which doesnt make sense for console of this size.
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one, and I think in this case X1-X2 Pascal just wasn't ready for use in a major gaming console. Timing wasn't right. I'd still rather own a Switch than a Shield TV 2, first-party Nintendo games and having it treated like a "real" console make all the difference.
Indeed, Nintendo might've had to have waited another year which would be a really bad idea with the failing wii u.
AMD only said power efficiency, not performance. Jaguar is still a good lot stronger than a57.
You cannot seriously think a57 in tegra x1 is faster than Jaguar. That's a lot of power that 28nm to 20nm cannot solve, and AMD's cpu are way better than anything Nvidia can throw. I also have read an article somewhere but I cannot find it right now.
