Nintendo Switch's Tegra not custom at all - die shot revealed it's Tegra X1

[zMeul]

source: http://techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blog/nintendo-switch-teardown/

via: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-custom-tegra-processor-inside-switch-outed-as-standard-tegra-x1

 

 

Nintendo's own page lists the SoC inside the Switch to be a custom nVidia Tegra: http://www.nintendo.com/switch/features/tech-specs/

nVidia own literature speaks of a custom Tegra SoC: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

 

and yet, the die shot reveals it's the same SoC as the Tegra X1 in nVidia's SHIELD Android TV

Spoiler

CPU: 2.0 GHz 4 ARM Cortex-A57 and 4 ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit cores
GPU: 1000 MHz Maxwell (core configuration: 256:16:16)

 

when they talk about custom design, wtf do they mean?

 

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by zMeul

[DocSwag]

Custom clock speeds am I right?

[zMeul]

4 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Custom clock speeds am I right?

it's has a different label, so that's custom paint job 

[Syntaxvgm]

I mean it could be worse 

 

 

 

 

[The Sloth]

shield is more powerful than you think here is a footage of it running crysis 3 

here proof 

 

[Syntaxvgm]

6 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I mean it could be worse 

 

 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

shield is more powerful than you think here is a footage of it running crysis 3 

here proof 

 

hah! Beat you by a minute! 

[Zodiark1593]

I'd have liked for Nintendo to target 4K while keeping to NPR ( non photo realistic) rendering. Photorealism is expensive, but something along the lines of Mario Kart in 4K resolution should be doable on today's lower-mid end hardware. NPR rendering also benefits greatly from resolution. 

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

I'd have liked for Nintendo to target 4K while keeping to NPR ( non photo realistic) rendering. Photorealism is expensive, but something along the lines of Mario Kart in 4K resolution should be doable on today's lower-mid end hardware. NPR rendering also benefits greatly from resolution. 

 

i rather have 1080p 60 than 4k 30. 

[Sniperfox47]

14 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i rather have 1080p 60 than 4k 30. 

I'd rather have stable 1080p 30 than the switch >.>

[Zodiark1593]

18 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i rather have 1080p 60 than 4k 30. 

4K 60 fps was what I was thinking. Mario Kart at 4K 60 fps would be absolutely glorious to behold. 

[The Sloth]

25 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

I'd rather have stable 1080p 30 than the switch >.>

switch can do stable 1080p 60 fps, it's not a hard for it, most first party switch games run in 720p undocked or 1080p docked. 

[crystal6tak]

I guess this really means we won't be seeing a Nvidia X1 tablet then?

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, crystal6tak said:

I guess this really means we won't be seeing a Nvidia X1 tablet then?

you need a fan to keep the SOC cool, considering how thin and light people want tablets to be i am going to say no. 

[crystal6tak]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

you need a fan to keep it cool, considering how thin and light people want tablets to be i am going to say no. 

Oh interesting, I didn't know Switch had a fan

[The Sloth]

Just now, crystal6tak said:

Oh interesting, I didn't know Switch had a fan

 

[crystal6tak]

3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

 

?

 

That's the switch controller teardown. Were you trying to link the switch console teardown?

 

Oh nvm, you linked the page, thought you linked a picture LOL

[The Sloth]

Just now, crystal6tak said:

?

 

That's the switch controller teardown. Were you trying to link the switch console teardown?

 

no, that's the switch teardown, click the link

[Sniperfox47]

26 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

switch can do stable 1080p 60 fps, it's not a hard for it, most first party switch games run in 720p undocked or 1080p docked. 

Breath of the Wild struggles to maintain 30fps in areas of heavy flaura or in cities or if a wifi scan runs in the background, that was the point I was getting at.

 

Breath of the Wild is a far more comfortable experience portable than it is docked.

[The Sloth]

34 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Breath of the Wild struggles to maintain 30fps in areas of heavy flaura or in cities or if a wifi scan runs in the background, that was the point I was getting at.

 

Breath of the Wild is a far more comfortable experience portable than it is docked.

 

yes, i know but still, comparing Mario cart to an open world game is not a good comparison. breath of the wild is such a good game in my opinion, its the best game i played in a long time. 

[Prysin]

well what did you people expect? Nintendo has been so stuck up their asses when it comes to performance that there is no way the switch would actually be decent.

[The Sloth]

Just now, Prysin said:

well what did you people expect? Nintendo has been so stuck up their asses when it comes to performance that there is no way the switch would actually be decent.

 

not to be that guy, don't talk about something you haven used or know much about. 

[TheUzu]

All the while idgaf while playing Zelda BOTW.

 

Framerate can dip a tad in Console mode but I play the thing in Handheld mode the majority of the time anyway.

 

None of the performance issues are big enough to stop Zelda being an amazing game.

 

I think most of the hate is salty people who can't afford it or are so PC master race hur dur that anything below 4K HDR 120fps is seen as an affront to god.

 

tldr

Zelda is still good so idgaf

[Taf the Ghost]

2 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

4K 60 fps was what I was thinking. Mario Kart at 4K 60 fps would be absolutely glorious to behold. 

It's going to be another 3-4 years before it makes practical sense to scale a console up that far.  4K is looking to be around 35% of the new TV market this year.  This leaves nearly the entire world-install base as 720p or 1080p.  By the time it really matters, Nintendo will be on another console generation.

[Prysin]

1 hour ago, nerdslayer1 said:

not to be that guy, don't talk about something you haven used or know much about. 

oh please, to cite Mr Duke Nukem.

"Blow it out your arse."

 

Everyone knew what the Switch could do two days after launch. Now we know for sure that there is nothing that will improve.

[RagnarokDel]

3 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

switch can do stable 1080p 60 fps, it's not a hard for it, most first party switch games run in 720p undocked or 1080p docked. 

Nice, you mean it's able to do 1080p60fps while showing a vibrating wallpaper on 1-2 Switch? Such performance.