It's time for the Finale! Please take a look at the post here and cast your vote for Famiboards' Game of the Year!
I want to remind everyone that the button having "C" written on it is a complete guess, and anything stemming from that is just as wrong as everyone else. Plus if this were to be some kind of function button like "camera" or "connect" or whatever new's been popping up, they would use a symbol like the home button or the screenshot button.
devblogs.microsoft.com
The problem with it being a letter C is that whichever word that could refer to might be spelled differently in other languages.
I just really enjoy process node discussions. Even with the iPhones, I was excited to see what changes 3nm would bring because it became such a hot button geopolitical issue, but then the A17 Pro and M3s were pretty disappointing from an efficiency standpoint. It took until this N3E process for serious efficiency gains to be made, when until a few months before, it might have been reasonable to expect efficiency gains with a 3nm process.
I think you're largely on the right track, but I don't see how the top USB-C port (if it exists) is "obviously" for peripherals. Like Steam Deck and others, wouldn't it more likely be for ease of charging, with the OPTION to use it for peripherals (which you wouldn't have to move when docking or undocking) such as headphones. An example would be the USB C port on Nintendo Switch Lite. Just for charging, USB headphones and the like, the "dedicated" periphera for it are but USB hubs for charging it or plugging in controllers.
Might very well be.
DLSS is a process that can be done concurrently just like how the CPU and GPU can be done concurrently. Different stages in a pipeline. As DLSS is upscaling frame 3, the GPU is rendering frame 4, and the CPU is prepping frame 5. It's not like FSR which has to use the GPU for the upscale. It's using separate hardware. Even if DLSS creates a serviceable mock-up of a higher resolution, it's done by using a lower resolution input, which in turn reduces the load of the GPU, allowing it to render frames faster (if the CPU is faster at prepping), thereby increasing performance.
Absolutely not - N64 was cutting edge, including node. Though back then, nodes were much bigger, and generational gains extremely transformative (like 8 to 16 to 32 bit happened in just a handful of node shifts).
Simple answer is: no it wouldn't.
I think PS5 Pro is rumoured to be N4P as well.
What if it’s unique gimmick is… no unique gimmick. Technically it’d be unique in terms of Nintendo consoles
Unless of course it's a multifunction system button that interfaces with whatever USB-C device is plugged in at the top (e.g. push to talk with a headset plugged in, recalibrate tracking for camera, etc). In which case a "C" button (which is apparently pure speculation anyway?) is somewhat appropriate and universally understandable.
I was under the impression that it was 6nm.You know better than throwing lines like these
What is the source?
I’m think 5/4nm is now more leading edge and 3nm is cutting edge
Given that DF recently wrote that tweet commenting on the leaked photo of the Switch 2 and the small battery with a ''Manage your expectations with the handheld performance'', it seems that their thinking is that its 8nm on a smallish battery and it will just be downclocked to weak performance to make it work.
Same here, I don't see much evidence of TSMC N4P, knowing the information about clock speed of the CPU and GPU respectively.
That's been their consistent commentary on the Switch successor yup.
Or just "Mic On/Off" button. Like on the DualSense
The thing is... Massive downclocks might themselves be genuinely impossible on T239 - the battery may only be a small bit larger in capacity, but the minimum clock for Ampere would land the power consumption above V1, thus placing battery life well below V1. That seems exceptionally, excruciatingly unlikely.
I enjoy DF but I really don’t put any stock in Rich’s analysis when it comes to the Switch successor.
Good point. It shows that they will use whatever argument they can to argue for why 8nm is inevitable. That strikes me as incredibly odd. They seem really invested in downplaying the potential of Switch 2. I think its because they are really set in their view of Nintendo as a company that cares nothing at all about performance, so they can't see any possibility of Nintendo using a 4nm node and having pretty high clocks.
Makes sense, would be a little disappointing compared to the refresh we got with the current Switch generation though
Can we, please, stop pretending anything they have to say is particularly relevant to us? Just saying, but this isn't the first time they have doubled down in impossibles.
I appreciate your effort in introducing concurrent calculations in the discussion. Still, even if we assume that the whole temporal feedback loop and work done by the neuronal network can be done within one frame time, the GPU has to draw more pixels on the screen than it did without DLSS. And that consumes more time.
This is a super rude unnecessary post directed towards someone who wasn't even talking to you. Did you really need to do this?
It is pretty understood that DLSS achieves increased performance through reduced resolution and changes the lower res image back to a comparably high resolution image. I don't think anyone here thinks DLSS is free performance. But the increased performance penalty you take on using DLSS is more than made up for by the performance increase you get by lowering the resolution so much.
I think its because in our terminally online gaming bubble, DF has a lot of credibility, so when they downplay the possible performance of Switch 2 that becomes seen as an established truth, sure none of it will matter when the real thing gets revealed and then released but their view of the Switch 2 leads to some discussions about Nintendo releasing a very low performance old tech Switch 2 on some gaming forums.
This is mostly a good thing, but the benefits to non-windows platforms will take a while to show up, I imagine, as it's early days yet.DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future - DirectX Developer Blog
Today the Direct3D and HLSL teams are excited to share some insight into the next big step for GPU programmability. Once Shader Model 7 is released, DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V™. The HLSL team is committed to open development processes and collaborating with The Khronos®...
Tell me about it... Frankly I'm at that point of the speculation saga where I have close to zero doubts of what this thing will be able to do. No idea if others are in the same boat as well, but I just want to see the console announced.
Where did this info for Ampere's minimum clock come from? I ask because I'd also like to know Maxwell's minimum clock. The thing is, Switch is capable of reducing the TX1's GPU clock down to at 76.8Mhz for Boost Mode. Is that because Maxwell is capable of that but Ampere is incapable of going below 420 Mhz?
they are extremely conservative in their speculation, and I don’t think there has to be any sort of agenda behind it.
I think that we won't have user control of DLSS and I'll be optimized in a different way for every game. Not everything needs to run at 60 so they'll target different render resolution and DLSS profiles for each of them. I don't think that they'll have only one set of DLSS configuration for every game.
They already burned their fingers once also with predicting that the Tegra X2 is going to be in the switch, so they're going the opposite direction now haha. That's pretty much it.
I definitely see their view of Nintendo as a company influence their view of Switch 2. I mean i don't at all see them being hugely pessimistic regarding other hardware releases, no way they would argue for a worst case scenario for stuff like a PS5 pro before it was revealed for example. I mean with the Switch 2 they haven't even acknowledged the possibility of it being a performative handheld, they have openly spread views about it being pretty far off something like the steam deck for example.
