Yes I agree
I think Nintendo's decision to use a smaller fan and a thinner copper heat pipe for the OLED model on the left in comparison to the Nintendo Switch (2019) on the right respectively is an indication that Nintendo has no plans to allow additional, exclusive options for the the CPU and GPU frequencies for the Tegra X1+ on the OLED model to be increased in the future.
Yeah, the OG Switch's cooling was a bit over-engineered which is why i was initially hopeful of an overclock and maybe Nintendo was thinking about it at some point. But subsequent hardware revisions have made it clear those stable ShieldTV clocks are the final clocks in docked mode. Ship has sailed on the OC sadly, and I think, personally, even offering a 10-15% GPU OC as a user option to stablize some of the DRS games even if no specific games took advantage of the OC would have been seen as a nice pro-consumer move. But alas, that ain't happening.
If you mean bluetooth headsets, it's pretty shit for all the reasons expected
Tegra X1 Mariko was the perfect time for a cheap Pro model with new power profile. If Nintendo didn't do at the time, they weren't going to do with OLED. That ship has sailed a long time ago.
Perhaps Imagination Technologies could have considerably more desirable customers if Imagination Technologies hasn't been all talk and no action for the past couple of years.
Even without a chip shortage the cost of 2 SOC would never make a device affordable
Yes. agree.
Why would Nintendo want to go with AMD? What benefits does AMD provide Nintendo that Nvidia doesn’t? Especially long term or for however long this relationship lasts. If they do move to AMD what will Nintendo be giving up? I just see it as more of a hassle at this point then just working with whatever Nvidia has.
I don't think there are currently any advantages for going back to AMD vs continuing the partnership with Nvidia for Nintendo, especially if AMD's relying on Samsung to provide Nintendo an Arm based SoC that features AMD's GPU, given Samsung's multi-year partnership with AMD; and there's a rumour about the Exynos 2200 having a lower yield rate than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which has a yield rate of ~35%. (This doesn't take into account backwards compatibility, which is definitely going to be more complicated to deal if Nintendo goes back to AMD.)
you never stop looking at your options. even if it's just attending a slide deck presentation, you still go.
Now I know why Dungeon Dice Monsters was picked up for one episode
They've probably got some ARM stuff in the works at this point, if for no other reason than hedging their bets against the bottom falling out of x86 faster than expected.
AMD's technically working with Samsung on Arm based hardware, albeit indirectly (e.g. AMD licensing the RDNA 2 GPU IP to Samsung for the Exynos 2200).
That's only a rumour.
That’s true! Forgot about that.
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Definitely a reason why Nintendo could be interested in having the DLSS model* support HDMI 2.1 and VRR, unless Nintendo plans to use Nvidia G-Sync or AMD Freesync to support VRR via HDMI 2.0b, which the OLED model supports, at least for TV mode. However, adding support for VRR for handheld mode is more complicated, unless Nintendo decides to use a 1080p display that has a refresh rate of 120 Hz and supports VRR, similar to the displays used for the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which used customised 1080p displays.
I'm not sure that would be feasible. Isn't it pretty normal for games to scale the main rendered image and then overlay a UI with fixed resolution elements so those parts can be sharper? So as far as the system is concerned, the game is outputting a 1080p image and would have nothing further to do.
The funny thing is this seems like a brute force approach
Honestly the only reason for Two SoCs is actually the opposite reason.
Right, and right now I'm heavily leaning towards DLSS being a docked only feature, it makes the most sense. Target 720p 60fps portable but allow docked to go as high as 4K with DLSS, but realisitcally you'll probably have a lot of games rendered at 720p docked with DLSS bringing it up to 1440p. That's in the 'good enough' territory for most folks.
Yeah I don't think they will mix and match resolution scalers like this, my point is more around the Tensor cores being turned off while undocked. T
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If that's the case, the backwards compatibility will either be a nightmare or non-existant given how Nvidia provided the APIs.
How reliable is that source? since it doesn't line up with other things we've heard. Anyone can type out a rumor. And I assume a lot of nuance gets lost in translation (even if its reliable)
Considering what Furukawa recently implied about backwards compatibility switching to AMD sounds wildly improbable.
Which wouldn't make much sense of (AMD) because Nintendo has recently mentioned that what hardware comes next will possibly have backwards compatibility with current Switch games.
Yeah, there's really no reason to think an AMD GPU is a realistic scenario. Nintendo and Nvidia have a pretty good thing going right now, and there's been no indication of that changing.
I think most people here believe that Nintendo won't stop working with Nvidia, especially if backwards compatibility is one of Nintendo's biggest priorities.
Nintendo never signed a 10 year contract. Jenson pointed out that Nintendo worked with IBM and AMD(formerly ATI) for 3 consoles (Gamecube, Wii and WiiU) and suddenly people started saying Nvidia has a multi year contract.
Actually with IBM, there was a deal. it was widely reported. Not sure about AMD since they bought ArtX which designed the GameCube GPU and they were a private firm so no press releases were issued, they assembled ex- SiliconGraphics staff and got to work on GameCube before being bought out.
