I've seen the IPC tables, and it's genuinely impressive. But IPC is only part of the equation; relatively low clocks can still bog you down, which is where my concern stems from. It is a low power tablet, after all. Current Switch's CPU is so massively underclocked that even a (admittedly poorly programmed) mobile game like Genshin could not run on it. Thus games like Dragons Dogma 2 feel uncertain.
Hmmm, I would say that Genshin impact is an outlier, because we of course had larger games that may have been more complex w.r.t. CPU side of things. Moreover, genshin is primary made for mobile phones, which were out around that time, even the PS4 with its poor CPU is relatively better so I guess that's just the nature of timing for that game specifically and Mihoyo likely also didn't want to spend resources in fine-combing what bottlenecks there are to reach a market that in their eyes was smaller compared to mobile phones
, especially considering now that they're going to reduce the visual settings on the SoC, which was considering a flagship (Snapdragon 865).
While it is a big game (marker and scope wise), in the end it'll find its footing on the successor.
With DD2, it's a bit similar, more of an outlier and also a title that'll hopefully be improved through post-launch patches.
Moreover, I think with DD2 I'd like to see more testing.
A bit of salt, he is a Nvidia leaker
As for the "frustated", i guess its because Nintendo want it cheap.
Jensen is not "frustrated", it's a very editorialized way of framing it imo, because there's no clear explanation of what he'd frustrated about.
NVIDIA's competition is the ever expanding market of laptops with iGPUs, being more competent year on year. Intel has entered with Meteor Lake, Apple already has found their footing and are dominating a certain base of the laptop user market, Qualcomm will enter this year and although I don't have mjuch hope, it's going to be interesting how they'll match price-competitively. AMD since vega APUs have been iterating year on year and their upcoming APUs are going all out (e.g Strix Halo) going by the rumours.
AMD especially has carved out their position in gaming consoles and pretty much dominate the PC gaming handheld market.
Nintendo's is NVIDIAs gateway into the gaming console business, and they likely want to expand to laptops, pcs and handhelds going by the rumours of this partnership. Because if any of their partners in the laptop space doesn't need an NVIDIA dGPU anymore, then that will mean a bunch of units in the middle laptop segment with nvidia GPUs may not be necessary anymore. I think this also doubles down on the on "AI-PC", strategy as they've tried to do whole diagrams comparing CPU, NPU and NVIDIA GPU.
Moreover, NVIDIA and mediatek for future PC's, laptops were also in the rumours and kind-of confirmed in one of their news reports around the arm acquissition days for NVIDIA;
GTC -- NVIDIA today announced a series of collaborations that combine NVIDIA GPUs and software with Arm®-based CPUs — extending the benefits of Arm’s...
nvidianews.nvidia.com
This was in 2021;
In PCs, NVIDIA is partnering with MediaTek, one of the world’s largest suppliers of Arm-based SoCs, to create a reference platform supporting Chromium, Linux and NVIDIA SDKs. The combination of NVIDIA RTX GPUs with high-performance, energy-efficient Arm Cortex® processors will bring realistic ray-traced graphics and cutting-edge AI to a new class of laptops.
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said, “MediaTek is the world’s largest supplier of Arm chips, used to power everything from smartphones, Chromebooks and smart TVs. We look forward to using our technology and working with NVIDIA to bring the power of GPUs to the Arm PC platform for gaming, content creation and much more. GPU acceleration will be a huge boost for the entire Arm ecosystem.”
Six months after announcing it was acquiring Arm, NVIDIA has unveiled new processors and partnerships to speed platforms using Arm-based CPUs from Amazon Web Services, Ampere Computing, MediaTek and Marvell.
blogs.nvidia.com
In PCs, NVIDIA is working with MediaTek, the world’s largest supplier of smartphone chips, to create a new class of notebooks powered by an Arm-based CPU alongside an NVIDIA RTX GPU.
The notebooks will use Arm cores and NVIDIA graphics to give consumers energy-efficient portables with no-compromise media capabilities based on a reference platform that supports Chromium, Linux and NVIDIA SDKs.
So there was a plan to do all of this, but we know what happened in 2022 as the ARM acquisition fell through and likely quite a few of their plans also. Yes it would be a reference platform of some sort (likely the one similar to the one they used with RTX and ARM, where an RTX 3060 was used with a MediaTek CPU), but it would mean that such plans did exist in 2021.
Nonetheless, NVIDIA and MediaTek have an established partnership in the automotive space and I think in general, there's a lot of knowledge transfer and expanding the drivers that will apply to the development of a SoC, which can be used in a (windows) laptop.
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